{"product_id":"southern-history-remixed-on-rock-n-roll-and-the-dilemma-of-race-paperback-softback-9780813081366","title":"Southern History Remixed; On Rock 'n' Roll and the Dilemma of Race (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813081366","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eOn Rock 'n' Roll and the Dilemma of Race\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael T. Bertrand (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813081366\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e322 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm, 0.518 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By retelling familiar stories and uncovering new ones, \u003ci\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes southern music history and issues a call to arms for scholars to take the music as seriously as the historical actors took it.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/i\u003e takes on the formidable task of reconciling race relations in the American South through the course of emerging poplar music styles that eventually led to the rock ’n’ roll era. . . . Highly recommended.”—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As Michael Bertrand continuously demonstrates in his fascinating new book, \u003ci\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/i\u003e, popular music shaped how Southerners, Black and white, understood and engaged with one another. Music could both unite and divide.”—\u003ci\u003eNashville Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/i\u003e spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock ’n’ roll in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical narratives of the region, Michael Bertrand shows that they can reveal much about social history and culture change as he connects the rise of rock ’n’ roll to the civil rights movement for racial equality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this book, Bertrand traces a long-term culture war in which white southerners struggled over the region’s cultural complexion with music serving as an engine that both sustained and challenged white supremacy. He shows how rock ’n’ roll emerged as a working-class genre with biracial sources that stoked white racial anxieties and engaged the region’s color and culture lines. This book discusses the conflict over southern identity that played out in responses to jazz, barn dance radio, Pentecostal and gospel music, Black radio programming, and rhythm and blues, concluding with a close look at the popularity of Elvis Presley within a racially segregated society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern History Remixed\u003c\/i\u003e suggests that both Black and white southerners have used music as a tool to resist or negotiate a rigid regional hierarchy. Urging readers and scholars to take the study of popular music seriously, Bertrand argues that what occurs in the music world affects and reflects what happens in politics and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Florida","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52681242607896,"sku":"9780813081366","price":16.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/southern-history-remixed-on-rock-n-roll-and-the-dilemma-of-race-paperback-softback-9780813081366","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}