Sound of the South

How does sound and especially what Christopher Small calls musicking—performing, composing, dancing, and listening to music—shape the twentieth century history of the US South?  While there is no shortage of sources on this topic, the challenge for historians is untangling the history of the 1960s and 1970s folk and blues revivals and their formative influence on the way scholars and music fans have listened to and interpreted the early twentieth century sonic landscape from what sources from earlier periods have to tell us about how people performed and listened to music and other sounds at the time.  Can we as historians learn to listen to the past with pre-rock and roll ears?