{"product_id":"sounding-the-color-line-music-and-race-in-the-southern-imagination-paperback","title":"Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErich Nunn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSounding the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through such barriers. A critical disjuncture exists, then, between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. This is nowhere more apparent than in the South. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike Jim Crow segregation, the separation of musical forms along racial lines has required enormous energy to maintain. How, asks Nunn, did the protocols structuring listeners' racial associations arise? How have they evolved and been maintained in the face of repeated transgressions of the musical color line? Considering the South as the imagined ground where conflicts of racial and national identities are staged, this book looks at developing ideas concerning folk song and racial and cultural nationalism alongside the competing and sometimes contradictory workings of an emerging culture industry. Drawing on a diverse archive of musical recordings, critical artifacts, and literary texts, Nunn reveals how the musical color line has not only been established and maintained but also repeatedly crossed, fractured, and reformed. This push and pull--between segregationist cultural logics and music's disrespect of racially defined boundaries--is an animating force in twentieth-century American popular culture.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eERICH NUNN\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eFaulkner Journal\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Mark Twain Annual\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eCriticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; and in the edited collection, \u003ci\u003eTransatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757870252320,"sku":"9780820347370","price":50.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/a543ff3eaaa4a1f7f196ec6edac4dfd9.webp?v=1780113639","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/sounding-the-color-line-music-and-race-in-the-southern-imagination-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}