Sounding the Color Line

Informationen zum Autor Erich Nunn is an assistant professor of English at Auburn University. 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." Klappentext Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. A critical disjuncture exists between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other. Zusammenfassung Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms! sounds! and genres in racialized contexts. A critical disjuncture exists between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other.

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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.

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Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. A critical disjuncture exists between actual interracial musical and cultural forms on the one hand and racialized structures of feeling on the other.