Music and the Making of a New South

Author/Contributor(s):	Campbell, Gavin James
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	03/01/2004
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Campbell focuses on three popular musical institutions in Atlanta at the height of the Jim Crow era: the annual visit of the Metropolitan Opera, the Colored Music Festival, and the Georgia Old Time Fiddlers' Convention, demonstrating how music addressed Atlantans' class anxieties and affirmed the segregationist impulse.