Segregating sound
Subtitle: inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow
By: Karl Hagstrom Miller.
Series: Refiguring American music; Refiguring American music
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780822346890; 9780822347002
Subjects: Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Folk music -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Folk music -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Popular music -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century; Popular music -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Segregation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tin Pan Alley on tour : the Southern embrace of commercial music; title: Making money making music : the education of Southern musicians in local markets; title: Isolating folk, isolating songs : reimagining Southern music as folklore; title: Southern musicians and the lure of New York City : representing the South from coon songs; title: To the blues; title: Talking machine world : discovering local music in the global phonograph industry; title: Race records and old-time music : the creation of two marketing categories in the 1920s; title: Black folk and hillbilly pop : industry enforcement of the musical color line; title: Reimagining pop tunes as folk songs: the ascension of the folkloric paradigm; title: Afterword: "All songs is folk songs".