Hidden in the Mix

Introduction. Country Music and Racial Formation / Diane Pecknold 1

Part One. Playing in the Dark

1. Black Hillbillies: African American Musicians on Old-Time Records, 1924-1932 / Patrick Huber 19

2. Making Country Modern: The Legacy of Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music / Diane Pecknold 82

3. Contested Origins: Arnold Schultz and the Music of Western Kentucky / Erika Brady 100

4. Fiddling with Race Relations in Rural Kentucky: The Life, Times, and Contested Identity of Fiddlin' Bill Livers / Jeffrey A. Keith 119

Part Two. New Antiphonies

5. Why African Americans Put the Banjo Down / Tony Thomas 143

6. Old-Time Country Music in North Carolina and Virginia: The 1970s and 1980s / Kip Lornell 171

7. "The South's Gonna Do It Again": Changing Conceptions of the Use of "Country" Music in the Albums of Al Green / Michael Awkward 191

8. Dancing the Habanera Beats (in Country Music): The Creole-Country Two-Step in St. Lucia and Its Diaspora / Jerry Wever 204

9. Playing Chicken with the Train: Cowboy Troy's Hick-Hop and the Transracial Country West / Adam Gussow 234

10. If Only They Could Read between the Lines: Alice Randall and the Integration of Country Music / Barbara Ching 263

11. You're My Soul Song: How Southern Soul Changed Country Music / Charles L. Hughes 283

12. What's Syd Got to Do with It? King Records, Henry Glover, and the Complex Achievement of Crossover / David Sanjek 306

Bibliography 339

Contributors 361

Index 365