The Digital Past

Miller’s book, Segregating Sound brought the “musical color line” to light, highlighting segregation and how folk music falsely depicted life in the south for a black person. Folklore was not an accurate representation of the southern sound according to Miller because it altered the sound and style of authentic music in the south. He claimed folklore was a part of a bigger, political movement, which included the Jim Crow segregation.”The cultural component of segregation, typified by the musical color line, was in some ways more successful than its legal counterpart, its narrative of discrete racial and regional cultures remaining ensconced long after the doctrine of separate but equal ceased to be the law of the land.”(Miller, 7) This means that the cultural aspect had a much bigger impact on the segregation of blacks and whites than the political aspect did.

I agree with Miller that the cultural component has more of an effect on how different cultures view each other. If you think about it you are more entitled to listen to what members of your own cultural think, and you would also pick up on their stereotypes towards others.