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Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South

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Within the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white The united states better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the similar songwriters, musicians, and producers Within the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama–what Charles L. Hughes calls the “country-soul triangle.” In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the USA. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became an important contributors to the era’s popular music and across the world recognized symbols of American racial politics Within the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash.

Hughes offers a provocative reinterpretation of this key moment in American popular music and challenges the conventional wisdom about the racial politics of southern studios and the music that emerged from them. Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the day-to-day world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters on the heart of the country and soul scenes. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of interested by music, race, labor, and the South on this pivotal period.

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