A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a musical color line in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities.
Refiguring American Music Series
This series presents bold, innovative works that challenge conventional thinking about the nature and character of American music. It emphasizes inter-American scope and interdisciplinary approaches, pushing beyond traditional frameworks of study. The publications explore music within the United States and its external boundaries and cultural influences, opening new directions in scholarship.
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Shows how musical acts and performances generate their own aesthetic and political force, creating, however fleetingly, a shared sense of the world among otherwise diverse listeners.