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Startled by rapid social changes at the turn of the twentieth century citizensof Atlanta wrestled with fears about the future of race relations the shape ofgender roles the impact of social class and the meaning of regional identityin a New South. Gavin James Campbell demonstrates how these anxieties wereplayed out in Atlantas popular musical entertainment.Examining the period from 1890 to 1925 Campbell focuses on three popularmusical institutions the New York Metropolitan Opera which visited Atlantaeach year the Colored Music Festival and the Georgia OldTime FiddlersConvention. White and black audiences charged these events with deepsignificance Campbell argues turning an evenings entertainment into astruggle between rival claimants for the New Souths soul. Opera spiritualsand fiddling became popular not just because they were entertaining but alsobecause audiences found them flexible enough to accommodate a variety ofcompeting responses to the challenges of making a New South.Campbell shows how attempts to inscribe music with a single public fixedmeaning were connected to much larger struggles over the distribution ofsocial political cultural and economic power. Attitudes about music extendedbeyond the concert hall to simultaneously enrich and impoverish both the regionand the nation that these New Southerners struggled to create. «
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