Country Soul

Making Music and Making Race in the American South

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama--what Charles L. Hughes calls the ""country-soul triangle."" In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the United States. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became crucial contributors to the era's popular music and internationally recognized symbols of American racial politics in the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash. Hughes offers a provocative reinterpretation of this key moment in American popular music and challenges the conventional wisdom about the racial politics of southern studios and the music that emerged from them. Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of thinking about music, race, labor, and the South in this pivotal period.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-02-01
Mått:155 x 231 x 18 mm
Vikt:409 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:9781469633428

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Charles L. Hughes is assistant professor of history at Oklahoma State University.

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A valuable corrective to the misleading renderings so often encountered in the literature about the period and in the popular imagination."" -Memphis MagazineA fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the apparent spaces of racial harmony in the country-soul triangle.-Journal of Southern HistoryAn essential piece of Southern musical history.-Kirkus ReviewsA powerful work.-Library JournalAn eye-opening corrective to notions of racial harmony in the recording studio or on the bandstand."" -Memphis FlyerWith its courageous, thoroughly researched, and deeply considered take on the racial politics of the southern music industry in a pivotal period for not just the music but the South and the nation at large, Country Soul claims its own essential place in the telling of that messy history.-PasteThis carefully researched study...presents interesting insights into the music and racial politics of a turbulent era.-CHOICECountry Soul is an excellent place to begin a more honest accounting of this golden era.-Pitchfork ReviewA fascinating read on many levels.-Stillwater News PressCountry Soul is a valuable addition to the literature on southern music, black and white.-American Historical Review""A deep, fresh examination of various power relations involved in the making of soul music, country music, and the sonic space between them.-The Wall Street JournalExploring th[e] contradiction between universalism and racial particularism [in musical genres] gives . . . Country Soul, its power and insight.-Journal of American History