Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe

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Book Review| March 01 2023 Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe Allen Lowe. “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, vols. 1 & 2. Hamden, CT: Constant Sorrow Press, 2020/ 2021. x + 352 pages, 397 pages, 30 CDs. Eric Lott Eric Lott The Graduate Center, CUNY Eric Lott teaches American studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford UP, 1993; 20th Anniversary ed., 2013), The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual (Basic Books, 2006), and Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (Harvard UP, 2017). He is finishing a book called If Hooks Could Kill: Sonic Situations and Postwar Problems. Email: elott@gc.cuny.edu Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Email: elott@gc.cuny.edu Journal of Popular Music Studies (2023) 35 (1): 139–144. https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.139 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Eric Lott; Review: “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960, by Allen Lowe. Journal of Popular Music Studies 1 March 2023; 35 (1): 139–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jpms.2023.35.1.139 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Popular Music Studies Search If you too have been waiting for a magisterial study of popular music animated by traditional racism and religiosity, victims of irony, dynamics of resistance, Christian warfare, God’s militia, the Confederacy in absentia, crimes of sentiment, country folk’s synchronized swim, praying for good sex, proletarian orchestras (in church), worldly cluelessness, the rhythm method (“a more subtle kind of resistance”), plant-based courtship (I’ll poke it through the window), love and booty, white moments of feeling, Death Be Not Barefoot, out of the mouths of white people, victims of style, and the Hawaiian version of the Baja marimba band, the wait is over. Allen Lowe’s “Turn Me Loose White Man” Or: Appropriating Culture: How to Listen to American Music, 1900-1960 is here. The foregoing names only the first half of its table of contents more or less (vol. 1), but volume 2 follows suit (e.g., the minstrel wound, hillbillies with 401k’s, gospel... You do not currently have access to this content.