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Front Porch

Front Porch In our Upbeat Down South, Vincent Joos tells how Jimmy Anderson grew up in fife-and-drum hotspot Natchez, Mississippi, and Dick Waterman's amazing photo essay includes a classic image of Otha Turner, thought to be the last fife musician of his generation. An Appalachian fifer and friend, c. 1914, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. This edition of Southern Cultures's music issue deals with "roots" music, a label that grew especially well known and popular after the Coen brothers' remarkable movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, appeared in 2000. America's diverse cultures have inspired an immense variety of musical forms and styles, nowhere more than in the South, and "roots" tries to capture that variety at the deepest level among families and communities, before the process of commercialization and homogenization begins. Our inspiration came from the North Carolina Humanities Council, which throughout 2010 is sponsoring a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution entitled "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music." Southern Cultures is pleased to offer our support for "New Harmonies," and you can visit www.SouthernCultures.org for more information on the tour. As we started to consider this issue, we looked for some help in defining just http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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Abstract

In our Upbeat Down South, Vincent Joos tells how Jimmy Anderson grew up in fife-and-drum hotspot Natchez, Mississippi, and Dick Waterman's amazing photo essay includes a classic image of Otha Turner, thought to be the last fife musician of his generation. An Appalachian fifer and friend, c. 1914, courtesy of the Collections of the Library of Congress. This edition of Southern Cultures's music issue deals with "roots" music, a label that grew especially well known and popular after the Coen brothers' remarkable movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, appeared in 2000. America's diverse cultures have inspired an immense variety of musical forms and styles, nowhere more than in the South, and "roots" tries to capture that variety at the deepest level among families and communities, before the process of commercialization and homogenization begins. Our inspiration came from the North Carolina Humanities Council, which throughout 2010 is sponsoring a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution entitled "New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music." Southern Cultures is pleased to offer our support for "New Harmonies," and you can visit www.SouthernCultures.org for more information on the tour. As we started to consider this issue, we looked for some help in defining just

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Aug 13, 2010

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