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From: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
List Editor: Michael Bertrand <bertrand@MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Editor's Subject: What makes Southern music "Southern"?
Author's Subject: What makes Southern music "Southern"?
Date Written: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:50:34 -0000
Date Posted: Tue, 30 Jan 2006 14:50:34 -0500

OK, I'll bite. One issue is whether the performers
are Southern, literally, which means born in the
South. I've lived in the South for more than 20
years, or more than 30 if you count Maryland, but
I'll never be considered a Southerner.

Second issue has to do with sound. Creedence
Clearwater "sounds" Southern, and I thought for
years that John Fogerty must be from Louisiana--but
he's actually from the other LA, Los Angeles.

OK, now others can chime in (how musical--chiming
in). I will ring off--

  Emily Toth
  English Dept.
  Louisiana State University

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