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Home > Conferences > POPULAR_MUSIC > 2009 > NOV13 > 4

Popular Music in the Mercer Era, 1910-1970
 

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Dixie Lullaby: Songs of the South From Tin Pan Alley

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Karen Cox, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

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11-13-2009 10:00 AM

Abstract

Dr. Cox's paper focuses on popular music about the American South, tracing its development from the minstrel tunes of Stephen Foster and Daniel Decatur Emmett to the "coon songs" of the late nineteenth-century, and finally, the "back-to-Dixie" songs of Tin Pan Alley. Cox shows how popular music, over several decades, helped perpetuate a nostalgic image of the South as a pre-industrial American paradise where life was easy and less hectic than the urban North, and African Americans like the beloved "mammy" were idealized as happy servants.

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Presented in the First Plenary Session: American Popular Music and the South

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Nov 13th, 10:00 AM

Dixie Lullaby: Songs of the South From Tin Pan Alley

Dr. Cox's paper focuses on popular music about the American South, tracing its development from the minstrel tunes of Stephen Foster and Daniel Decatur Emmett to the "coon songs" of the late nineteenth-century, and finally, the "back-to-Dixie" songs of Tin Pan Alley. Cox shows how popular music, over several decades, helped perpetuate a nostalgic image of the South as a pre-industrial American paradise where life was easy and less hectic than the urban North, and African Americans like the beloved "mammy" were idealized as happy servants.

 
 

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