| Description |
383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: country music and racial formation / Diane Pecknold -- Black hillbillies: African American musicians on old-time records, 1924-1932 / Patrick Huber -- Making country modern : the legacy of modern sounds in country and western music / Diane Pecknold -- Contested origins : Arnold Schultz and the music of western Kentucky / Erika Brady -- Fiddling with race relations in rural Kentucky: the life, times, and contested identity of Fiddlin' Bill Livers / Jeffrey A. Keith -- Why African Americans put the banjo down / Tony Thomas -- Old-time country music in North Carolina and Virginia : the 1970s & 1980s / Kip Lornell -- "The South's gonna do it again" : changing conceptions of the use of "country" music in the albums of Al Green / Michael Awkward -- Dancing the habanera beats (in country music) : the creole-country two-step in St. Lucia and its diaspora / Jerry Wever -- Playing chicken with the train : Cowboy Troy's hick-hop and the transracial country west / Adam Gussow -- If only they could read between the lines : Alice Randall and the integration of country music / Barbara Ching -- You're my soul song: how Southern soul changed country music / Charles L. Hughes -- What's Syd got to do with it? : King Records, Henry Glover and the complex achievement of crossover / David Sanjek. |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
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African Americans -- Music. |
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Country music -- History and criticism.
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Country music. |
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African American country musicians.
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African American country musicians. |
| Added Author |
Pecknold, Diane, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822351498 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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0822351498 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780822351634 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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0822351633 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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