Country soul
Subtitle: making music and making race in the American South
By: Charles L. Hughes
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781469622439
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Soul music; Popular music; Music and race; Country music; History and criticism; History
Description: Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes in the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of thinking about music, race, labor, and the South in this pivotal period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. There's a redneck in the soul band; title: We only had this one thing in common : we liked all types of music : the birth of the country-soul triangle; title: I got what I got the hard way : the music and mythology of the Memphis sound; title: Selling soul : black music and black power in Memphis; title: Take the white music and make it sound black : the Muscle Shoals sound in the 1970s; title: Pride and prejudice : race and country music in the era of backlash; title: The South's gonna do it again : the racial politics of the new southern music of the 1970s; title: Disco and down home blues : country and soul at the end of the 1970s; title: Coda. On accidental racists : interracial friendship, historical memory, and the country-soul triangle.