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The Segregation of Sound: Unheard African American Fiddlers
Mississippi Fiddle Tunes, Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018 (2021)
  • T. DeWayne Moore, Prairie View A&M University
Abstract
This chapter contains the biographies of African American fiddlers who never recorded due to the segregation of sound--Theodore Harris, Allen Alsop, and Prince McCoy, the highly versatile musician and string band leader who inspired W.C. Handy in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1905. Whereas ethnomusicologists have long associated the musical repertoires of African American musicians with their recorded output in the recording industry, the lived experiences and repertoires of there artists were always dynamic and versatile.
Keywords
  • Prince McCoy,
  • Fiddlers,
  • Mississippi
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter November, 2021
Editor
Harry Bolick and Tony Russell
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Series
American Made Music Series
Citation Information
T. DeWayne Moore, "'The Segregation of Sound: Unheard African American Fiddlers" in Mississippi Fiddle Tunes, Commercial and Informal Recordings, 1920-2018, eds. Harry Bolick and Tony Russell (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2021), 261-290.
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