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Erich Nunn - Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination (The New Southern Studies) - 9780820347370 - V9780820347370
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Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination (The New Southern Studies)

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Description for Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination (The New Southern Studies) Paperback. Series: The New Southern Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBF; 1KBBS; AVGH; JFCA; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.

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 lines has required ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
The New Southern Studies
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820347370
SKU
V9780820347370
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About Erich Nunn
ERICH NUNN is assistant professor of English at Auburn University and a postdoctoral fellow at Emory University’s Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. His work has been published in the Faulkner Journal; The Mark Twain Annual; Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts; Studies in American Culture; and in the edited collection, Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, ... Read more

Reviews for Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination (The New Southern Studies)
Sounding the Color Line is an important contribution that adds to our understanding of southern literature, culture, identity studies, and American popular music.
author of Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture
Nunn examines perceptions of musical styles as intrinsically white or black in the U.S. culture of the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. ... Read more

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