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Southern music has flourished as a meeting ground for the traditions of West African and European peoples in the region, leading to the evolution of various traditional folk genres, bluegrass, country, jazz, gospel, rock, blues, and southern hip-hop. This much-anticipated volume in __The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture__ celebrates an essential element of southern life and makes available for the first time a stand-alone reference to the music and music makers of the American South.With nearly double the number of entries devoted to music in the original __Encyclopedia__, this volume includes 30 thematic essays, covering topics such as ragtime, zydeco, folk music festivals, minstrelsy, rockabilly, white and black gospel traditions, and southern rock. And it features 174 topical and biographical entries, focusing on artists and musical outlets. From Mahalia Jackson to R.E.M., from Doc Watson to OutKast, this volume considers a diverse array of topics, drawing on the best historical and contemporary scholarship on southern music. It is a book for all southerners and for all serious music lovers, wherever they live.

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Author

Wilson, Charles Reagan, Malone, Bill C.

Publisher

The University of North Carolina Press,The University of North Carolina Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807871393

Category

history

Subjects

Music, History, Reference

Rating

4.5 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14