Segregating Sound - 9780822346890

Segregating SoundInventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow\nAuthor(s): Karl Hagstrom Miller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822346890, 978-0822346890\nSynopsis\nIn Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music-a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice-was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to particular racial and ethnic identities. The blues were African American. Rural white southerners played country music. By the 1920s, these depictions were touted in folk song collections and the catalogs of race and hillbilly records produced by the phonograph industry. Such links among race, region, and music were new. Black an.