| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.5

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Gavin James Campbell. Music and the Making of the New South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2004. Pp. xiii, 222. Cloth $55.00, paper $19.95.
At first glance, it may seem unusual, even improbable, that theatrical performances of opera, black spirituals, and old-time fiddle tunes could be discussed, let alone interpreted, as part of a single theme. They constitute separate worlds, or so well-disciplined music scholarship might lead us to believe. But backed by evidence of newspapers and magazines reporting civic events in the early twentieth century, Gavin James Campbell draws these phenomena together in a performance or cultural history of one southern city's transition to a new era. Atlanta, Georgia, is his focus—indeed, a metaphor—for the struggle of the South as a whole to find a modern, cosmopolitan way to present its traditional values as something novel. With slavery and Civil War still a persistent memory, Atlanta was not alone in the South in making the transition from white mastery in slavery to racial superiority in emancipation.	1
The explanatory promise of music in this interpretation of cultural history is that it shows how a medium designed to bring people together in public display could also serve to entrench their separation. Opera, Campbell finds, united white men and women in a show of cosmopolitanism and worked to exclude blacks. The all-white gatherings in gala opera "weeks" were hardly harmonious, Campbell deftly shows. Organized by women and associated with "feminization," the opera weeks in the city elicited commentary on the appropriate reactions of the southern man to his emasculation, offset somewhat by rhetorical moves to claim civic pride rather than art appreciation.	. . .

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