Description: Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds, and genres in racialized contexts. Yet, though we may speak of white or black music, rock or rap, sounds constantly leak through such barriers.
Brief description: 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.
Review Quotes: Sounding the Color Line is an important contribution that adds to our understanding of southern literature, culture, identity studies, and American popular music.--Barbara Ching "author of Wrong's What I Do Best: Hard Country Music and Contemporary Culture"