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OK, I'll bite too: I use quite a bit of southern music, new and old, in the classroom. Blues and contemporary country, mostly. Also minstrel tunes..... Ah, but they're northern. Made by northerners, for the most part, I mean. So even though they put a whole series of images of the South on the map--southern pastoral, in particular: moonlight through the plantation pines, a little house where Mammy waits with open arms, etc.--I guess minstrel songs can't be called southern, can they? Or can they? That's my first question. I'm answering the question by playing Socrates. Second question: to what extent is the place called "country" (as in, "I'm country"; also, as in "country music") co-extensive with "the South"? Seems to me that any good argument for what is or isn't southern music needs to take this question into account. (I should add that I speak as a guy who drives from NYC to Port Clyde, Maine every summer and listens to a lot of country music on various Yankee radio stations, commercial and homegrown, during the drive.) --Adam Adam Gussow Assistant Professor Department of English and Program in Southern Studies The University of Mississippi P.O. Box 1848 University, MS 38677 (ofc) 662-915-7333 (h) 662-281-8596
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