Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

by Karl Hagstrom Miller

Book Overview

In 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822347008
• ISBN13: 9780822347002
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"