Tennessee WordSmith
The Blog of Author and Historian Troy D. Smith
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Nineteenth Century Marshals and Violence
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Troy D. Smith Being a peace officer is, well, not always peaceful. It is a dangerous profession. Being in the federal marshals service h...
Saturday, November 11, 2017
RACE, CLASS, REGION AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. Introduction
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This started out as an outline for videos to use in a 7-hour class/workshop on this topic I am co-teaching with Andrew Smith; it has turned...
RACE, CLASS, REGION AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. Part 1: Genesis
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PART ONE: GENESIS [The birth of American music: a confluence of African and European elements .] The first Southern music: ...
RACE, CLASS, REGION AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. Part 2: The Blues and All That Jazz
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Precursors: New Orleans, and the Whorehouse Professors of Storyville o Civil War brass bands § “When the Saints Go Marching In”...
RACE, CLASS, REGION AND CULTURE IN AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC. Part 3: I Heard It on the Radio
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Between the World Wars, radio took over pop culture. Radio stations, and record producers, segregated music and musicians. It Don’t Mea...
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