ISBN:
9780813069890
Language:
English
Pages:
pages cm
Edition:
1st
Series Statement:
Southern dissent
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bertrand, Michael T Southern history remixed
DDC:
306.484260973
Keywords:
Rock music Social aspects
;
Rock music History and criticism
;
Popular music Social aspects
;
Music and race History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination
;
MUSIC / History & Criticism
;
Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies
;
Ethnische Gruppen und multikulturelle Studien
;
HISTORY / Social History
;
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
;
History of the Americas
;
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General
;
Amerikanische Geschichte
;
MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Theory
;
Music reviews & criticism
;
Musikkritik
;
Musikwissenschaft und Musiktheorie
;
Rock & Pop music
;
Rock n Roll
;
SOC068000
;
SOC069000
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies
;
Social & cultural history
;
Social discrimination & inequality
;
Southern States Race relations
;
History
Abstract:
"This book spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock 'n' roll, showing how the region's musical activities reveal deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture"--
Abstract:
"How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture Southern History Remixed spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock 'n' roll in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical narratives of the region, Michael Bertrand shows that they can reveal much about social history and culture change as he connects the rise of rock 'n' roll to the civil rights movement for racial equality. In this book, Bertrand traces a long-term culture war in which white southerners struggled over the region's cultural complexion with music serving as an engine that both sustained and challenged white supremacy. He shows how rock 'n' roll emerged as a working-class genre with biracial sources that stoked white racial anxieties and engaged the region's color and culture lines. This book discusses the conflict over southern identity that played out in responses to jazz, barn dance radio, Pentecostal and gospel music, Black radio programming, and rhythm and blues, concluding with a close look at the popularity of Elvis Presley within a racially segregated society. Southern History Remixed suggests that both Black and white southerners have used music as a tool to resist or negotiate a rigid regional hierarchy. Urging readers and scholars to take the study of popular music seriously, Bertrand argues that what occurs in the music world affects and reflects what happens in politics and history. A volume in the series Southern Dissent, edited by Stanley Harrold and Randall M. Miller"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface: Another Cause Lost? The South, the Gift of Black Music, and the Myth of the "White Man's Country" -- Mr. Cole Don't Rock 'n' Roll: The Pivotal Moment in Microcosm -- The Search for the Southern Past: A Musical Odyssey -- Remixing the Master, Restoring the Music: The Central Theme of Southern History Reconsidered -- Country Music Goes to War: Southern Identity and the Problem of the Color/Culture Line -- Interlude: "Strange Things Happening Every Day" -- "Everybody's Station": Black Radio, the White South, and the Birth of Rock 'n' Roll -- "This Ain't No Vaudeville!" On the Shared Stage of Rock 'n' Roll and Civil Rights in the Postwar South -- Afterword: Implications and Possibilities: Rock 'n' Roll as Southern History
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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