Pecknold Hidden in the Mix

The African American Presence in Country Music
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9497-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten

A collection of essays considering how country music became "white," how that fictive racialization has been maintained, and how African American artists and fans have used country music to elaborate their own identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pecknold, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Country Music and Racial Formation / Diane Pecknold 1

Part One. Playing in the Dark

1. Black Hillbillies: African American Musicians on Old-Time Records, 1924–1932 / Patrick Huber 19

2. Making Country Modern: The Legacy of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music / Diane Pecknold 82

3. Contested Origins: Arnold Schultz and the Music of Western Kentucky / Erika Brady 100

4. Fiddling with Race Relations in Rural Kentucky: The Life, Times, and Contested Identity of Fiddlin' Bill Livers / Jeffrey A. Keith 119

Part Two. New Antiphonies

5. Why African Americans Put the Banjo Down / Tony Thomas 143

6. Old-Time Country Music in North Carolina and Virginia: The 1970s and 1980s / Kip Lornell 171

7. "The South's Gonna Do It Again": Changing Conceptions of the Use of "Country" Music in the Albums of Al Green / Michael Awkward 191

8. Dancing the Habanera Beats (in Country Music): The Creole-Country Two-Step in St. Lucia and Its Diaspora / Jerry Wever 204

9. Playing Chicken with the Train: Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West / Adam Gussow 234

10. If Only They Could Read between the Lines: Alice Randall and the Integration of Country Music / Barbara Ching 263

11. You're My Soul Song: How Southern Soul Changed Country Music / Charles L. Hughes 283

12. What's Syd Got to Do with It? King Records, Henry Glover, and the Complex Achievement of Crossover / David Sanjek 306

Bibliography 339

Contributors 361

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Pecknold is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Louisville. She is the author of The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry, also published by Duke University Press, and editor (with Kristine M. McCusker) of A Boy Named Sue: Gender and Country Music.