| Sounding the Color Line: Music and Race in the Southern Imagination Subjects: Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Music and race -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century; Popular music -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Popular music -- Southern States -- History -- 21st century; Folk musi; Sounding the Color Line 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. ERICH NUNN 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 Faulkner Journal ; The Mark Twain Annual ; Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts ; Studies in American Culture ; and in the edited collection, Transatlantic Roots Music: Folk, Blues, and National Identities . |