| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
The New Southern Studies |
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New southern studies.
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| Contents |
American balladry and the anxiety of ancestry -- Country music and the souls of white folk -- Plantations, prisons, and the sounds of segregation -- The new Negro looks south -- Rethinking music and race in Jean Toomer's Cane -- Music and racial violence in William Faulkner's Sanctuary -- Coda : race, region, and the politics of hip-hop authenticity |
| Summary |
Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through such barriers. A critical disjuncture exists, then, between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. This is nowhere more apparent than in the South. Like Jim Crow segregation, the separation of musical forms along racial li |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sanctuary
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane.
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| SUBJECT |
Faulkner, William, 1897-1962. Sanctuary
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Toomer, Jean, 1894-1967. Cane
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Cane (Toomer, Jean) fast |
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Sanctuary (Faulkner, William) fast |
| Subject |
Folk music -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century
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Folk music -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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Popular music -- Southern States -- 21st century
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Popular music -- Southern States -- 20th century
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Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century
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Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
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MUSIC -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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Folk music
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Music and race
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Popular music
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2014036313 |
| ISBN |
9780820348353 |
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082034835X |
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