Music & the making of a new South
By: Gavin James Campbell
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Music -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Atlanta (Ga.) -- History
Other titles: Music and the making of a new South
Description: Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century, citizens of Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations, the shape of gender roles, the impact of social class, and the meaning of regional identity in a New South. Campbell demonstrates how these anxieties were played out in Atlanta's popular musical entertainment.

Examining the period of 1890 to 1925, Campbell focuses on three popular musical institutions: the New York Metropolitan Opera (which visited Atlanta each year), the Colored Music Festival, and the Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention. He shows how attempts to inscribe music with a single, public, fixed meaning were connected to much larger struggles over the distribution of social, political, cultural, and economic power. Attitudes about music extended beyond the concert hall to simultaneously enrich and impoverish both the region and the nation that these New Southerners struggled to create.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-206) and index
Table of contents: title: Grand Opera; title: The Colored Music Festival; title: The Georgia Old-Time Fiddling Contest