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Segregating sound : inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Miller, Karl Hagstrom, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Refiguring American music.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Tin Pan Alley on tour : the Southern embrace of commercial music
  • Making money making music : the education of Southern musicians in local markets
  • Isolating folk, isolating songs : reimagining Southern music as folklore
  • Southern musicians and the lure of New York City : representing the South from coon songs
  • To the blues
  • Talking machine world : discovering local music in the global phonograph industry
  • Race records and old-time music : the creation of two marketing categories in the 1920s
  • Black folk and hillbilly pop : industry enforcement of the musical color line
  • Reimagining pop tunes as folk songs: the ascension of the folkloric paradigm
  • Afterword: "All songs is folk songs."