Segregating Sound

"In this head-banging, eye-opening study, Karl Hagstrom Miller examines with stunning clarity the historical and material grounding of the music industry's three main revenue streams: live performance, recording, and publishing. Along the way, he demonstrates how the notion of authenticity in folklore discourse, systemic Jim Crow, and minstrelsy legacies worked together to calcify our contemporary--and quite naturalized--perceptions about music and racialized bodies.If you ever wondered where MTV, CMT, VH1, and BET got their marketing logic, look no further. In fact, you'll never experience a "Billboard" chart, nor the words 'keep it real' in the same way after reading this book!"--Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., author of "Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop"

Karl Hagstrom Miller

"In this head-banging, eye-opening study, Karl Hagstrom Miller examines with stunning clarity the historical and material grounding of the music industry's three main revenue streams: live performance, recording, and publishing. Along the way, he demonstrates how the notion of authenticity in folklore discourse, systemic Jim Crow, and minstrelsy legacies worked together to calcify our contemporary--and quite naturalized--perceptions about music and racialized bodies. If you ever wondered where MTV, CMT, VH1, and BET got their marketing logic, look no further. In fact, you'll never experience a Billboard chart, nor the words 'keep it real' in the same way after reading this book!"--Guthrie P. Ramsey Jr., author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop