Segregating sound: inventing folk and pop music in the age of Jim Crow

Tin Pan Alley on tour : the Southern embrace of commercial music

Making money making music : the education of Southern musicians in local markets

Isolating folk, isolating songs : reimagining Southern music as folklore

Southern musicians and the lure of New York City : representing the South from coon songs

To the blues

Talking machine world : discovering local music in the global phonograph industry

Race records and old-time music : the creation of two marketing categories in the 1920s

Black folk and hillbilly pop : industry enforcement of the musical color line

Reimagining pop tunes as folk songs: the ascension of the folkloric paradigm

Afterword: "All songs is folk songs".