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Front Porch The South is widely acknowledged as America’s musical heartland. Other peoples and regions have done their part for the national chorus, from millions of middle- clas s children hunched over their piano lessons to the writers of Tin Pan Alley to legions of singing cowboys, but more of our popular music seems to come from the South than anywhere else. Renowned musicologist Bill Malone states it as a flat- out fact in the Encyclopedia of Southern Cultur : “e The folk South has given the nation much of its music,” and he goes on to elaborate about minstrel shows, spirituals, blues, ballads, bluegrass, CajunsMex, , Tex-revivals, shape notes, and honky- tonks . The list goes on and on, and in the CD for this music issue, we bring you a sparkling sampler of examples, from Doc Watson and the Avett Brothers to the Carolina Chocolate Drops. W here in turn does southern music come from? Other places have been in- tensely musical without resembling the South at all—think of Mozart’s Austria. And other rural parts of the United States received a similar mix of British im- above: In “Backstage Stories: Wonders, Relics, and a Beer Fridge,” photographer Daniel Coston http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © Center for the Study of the American South.
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1534-1488

Abstract

The South is widely acknowledged as America’s musical heartland. Other peoples and regions have done their part for the national chorus, from millions of middle- clas s children hunched over their piano lessons to the writers of Tin Pan Alley to legions of singing cowboys, but more of our popular music seems to come from the South than anywhere else. Renowned musicologist Bill Malone states it as a flat- out fact in the Encyclopedia of Southern Cultur : “e The folk South has given the nation much of its music,” and he goes on to elaborate about minstrel shows, spirituals, blues, ballads, bluegrass, CajunsMex, , Tex-revivals, shape notes, and honky- tonks . The list goes on and on, and in the CD for this music issue, we bring you a sparkling sampler of examples, from Doc Watson and the Avett Brothers to the Carolina Chocolate Drops. W here in turn does southern music come from? Other places have been in- tensely musical without resembling the South at all—think of Mozart’s Austria. And other rural parts of the United States received a similar mix of British im- above: In “Backstage Stories: Wonders, Relics, and a Beer Fridge,” photographer Daniel Coston

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Nov 23, 2011

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