Karl Hagstrom Miller

Segregating Sound

Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

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Produktbeschreibung

Asks how the racialized genre divisions in American commerical music came into being, and how they became so entrenched, challenging the assumption of strict musical segregation in the late-19th-century rural South.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780822346890
• ISBN-10: 0822346893
• Artikelnr.: 28135216

Autorenporträt

Karl Hagstrom Miller is an Assistant Professor who teaches in the History Department and the Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music at the University of Texas, Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Tin Pan Alley on Tour: The Southern Embrace of Commercial Music 23
2. Making Money Making Music: The Education of Southern Musicians in Local
Markets 51
3. Isolating Folk, Isolating Songs: Reimagining Southern Music as Folklore
85
4. Southern Musicians and the Lure of New York City: Representing the South
from Coon Songs to the Blues 121
5. Talking Machine World: Discovering Local Music in the Global Phonograph
Industry 157
6. Race Records and Old-Time Music: The Creation of Two Marketing
Categories in the 1920s 187
7. Black Folk and Hillbilly Pop: Industry Enforcement of the Musical Color
Line 215
8. Reimagining Pop Tunes as Folk Songs: The Ascension of the Folkloric
Paradigm 241
Afterword: "All Songs is Folk Songs" 275
Notes 283
Bibliography 327
Index 351