"Up on Cripple Creek": Limb Loss, Difference, and Disability Spectacle in Southern Roots Music

IF 0.4 4区历史学 Q1 HISTORY

SOUTHERN CULTURES Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1353/scu.2023.0002

Simon H. Buck

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay explores the experiences and representations of several southern roots musicians with limb loss or limb differences. Through an examination of the lives of the one-armed Carolinian banjoist and busker "Uncle" Frank Rayborn in the 1950s and 1960s, amputee Confederate veterans who performed at early-twentieth century fiddlers' contests, the one-armed "barn dance" radio musician Emory Martin, and the African-American bluesman "Peg Leg" Howell, this essay explores wider issues of patronage, voyeurism, agency in the roots music—particularly old-time, country, and blues—in the twentieth-century US South. In the process, this essay draws attention to the juncture where disability, poverty, gender, and race meet in the South, and calls us to reconsider narratives of embodiment, difference, and spectacle not at the "extremities" of southern culture and history but at their cores.

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“在瘸子溪上”:南方根音乐中的肢体丧失、差异和残疾奇观

摘要：本文探讨了几位南方词人肢体缺失或肢体差异的经历和表现。本文通过对20世纪50年代和60年代的独臂卡罗莱纳州班乔和街头艺人“叔叔”弗兰克·雷伯恩、在20世纪初小提琴比赛中表演的截肢者邦联退伍军人、独臂“谷仓舞”广播音乐家埃默里·马丁和非裔美国蓝调演奏家“Peg Leg”豪厄尔的生活进行研究，在20世纪的美国南部，根源音乐——尤其是旧时代、乡村音乐和蓝调音乐。在这个过程中，本文提请人们注意残疾、贫困、性别和种族在南方相遇的时刻，并呼吁我们重新考虑体现、差异和奇观的叙事，而不是在南方文化和历史的“极端”，而是在它们的核心。

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期刊介绍： In the foreword to the first issue of the The Southern Literary Journal, published in November 1968, founding editors Louis D. Rubin, Jr. and C. Hugh Holman outlined the journal"s objectives: "To study the significant body of southern writing, to try to understand its relationship to the South, to attempt through it to understand an interesting and often vexing region of the American Union, and to do this, as far as possible, with good humor, critical tact, and objectivity--these are the perhaps impossible goals to which The Southern Literary Journal is committed." Since then The Southern Literary Journal has published hundreds of essays by scholars of southern literature examining the works of southern writers and the ongoing development of southern culture.

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