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.
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.
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
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
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