This book focuses on the fact that the way view southern music, is actually quite different from the way that southern music was actually played and sung. The book goes on to discuss how this type of music has went with their identities as being southerners and their culture surrounding the music. In the early 1900’s the southerner’s version of country music turned this genre into what some stereotypes label country music as more “redneck”. According to Miller, both Black and White singers were at one point part of similar music categories; and due to the increasing segregation in the south, this lead to the development of the so called “musical color line”. Within the book there are different topics that Miller focuses on, that have to do with the ongoing problems in the south and how it relates to the musical industry at the time. This was a pretty good read simply because it offered insight on the roots of how southern music became popular, given the ever present issue of discrimination in the southern states.
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