Sounding the Color Line - Music and Race in the Southern Imagination

Informationen zum Autor 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, and National Identities ." Klappentext Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. A critical disjuncture exists between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Erich Nunn
• Assisted by: Riche Richardson (Editor), Jon Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780820347370
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4737-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: New Southern Studies; The New Southern Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Music history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)