Rhythm and Roots: Southern Music Traditions

2008 ◽  
Vol 121 (482) ◽  
pp. 493
Author(s):  
Katherine Doss ◽  
Laurie Kay Sommers
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Author(s):  
Olivia Carter Mather

This chapter reviews how country music scholarship deals with race. It then suggests how scholarship might move forward toward a more critical stance. While evidence points toward African American innovation at the origins of country, survey histories of country music trace the music’s origins to British culture in Appalachia. Revisionist scholarship attempts to uncover black contributions in most periods of country’s history. Its most common topics are the construction of whiteness by the country music industry and the segregation of southern music in the 1920s into “race” and “hillbilly” marketing categories. This chapter ends by suggesting that country scholarship focus on race as a chief concern of the field, complicate its view of segregation, and give more attention to musical sound.



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1980 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Raymond F. Kennedy ◽  
Bill C. Malone


1984 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Marvin Reed ◽  
Donn C. Neal ◽  
Reuben Garner ◽  
James A. Zabel ◽  
Fred R. Van Hartesveldt ◽  
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