Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow (Refiguring American Music)
Segregating Sound explores how folk and pop music were invented, organized, and understood during the age of Jim Crow. Karl Hagstrom Miller places musical categories within their broader racial and cultural context, offering a historical study of the forces that shaped American music.
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Segregating Sound examines the invention and development of folk and pop music during the age of Jim Crow.
Karl Hagstrom Miller explores how musical categories were shaped within the racial and cultural conditions of the period.
The book considers the relationship between music, segregation, and the ways American musical traditions were defined.
Part of the Refiguring American Music series, this study offers a historical perspective on the classification of American music.
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