Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow
- Author: Miller, Karl
A cultural exploration and, in part, a polemic, Segregating Sound is at once a social history, musical history, business history and an intellectual history. . . . Miller is an engaging writer... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction 1
- 1. Tin Pan Alley on Tour: The Southern Embrace of Commercial Music 23
- 2. Making Money Making Music: The Education of Southern Musicians in Local Markets 51
- 3. Isolating Folk, Isolating Songs: Reimagining Southern Music as Folklore 85
- 4. Southern Musicians and the Lure of New York City: Representing the South from Coon Songs to the Blues 121
- 5. Talking Machine World: Discovering Local Music in the Global Phonograph Industry 157
- 6. Race Records and Old-Time Music: The Creation of Two Marketing Categories in the 1920s 187
- 7. Black Folk and Hillbilly Pop: Industry Enforcement of the Musical Color Line 215
- 8. Reimagining Pop Tunes as Folk Songs: The Ascension of the Folkloric Paradigm 241
- Afterword: "All Songs is Folk Songs" 275
- Notes 283
- Bibliography 327
- Index 351