Grey-Washing Jim Crow: The Cultural Colonization of African-American Folk Music
This article explores the collection of black music by white folk collectors during the Jim Crow era in the U.S. South as an act of cultural colonization. The purpose is to analyze white curation of black authenticity as integral to early twentieth century attempts to demonstrate Southern and Americ...
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| description | This article explores the collection of black music by white folk collectors during the Jim Crow era in the U.S. South as an act of cultural colonization. The purpose is to analyze white curation of black authenticity as integral to early twentieth century attempts to demonstrate Southern and American exceptionalism--self-conscious and successful attempts by the collectors to shape American cultural memory of the South during the height of the Jim Crow era. |
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| title | Grey-Washing Jim Crow: The Cultural Colonization of African-American Folk Music |
| title_full | Grey-Washing Jim Crow: The Cultural Colonization of African-American Folk Music |
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| title_short | Grey-Washing Jim Crow: The Cultural Colonization of African-American Folk Music |
| title_sort | grey washing jim crow the cultural colonization of african american folk music |
| topic | cultural colonization Jim Crow African American music U.S. South folk music |
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