Why read Dixie Lullaby?

Book cover of Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music Race and New Beginnings in a New South

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In ""Dixie Lullaby"", a veteran music journalist ponders the transformative effects of rock and roll on the generation of white southerners who came of age in the 1970s - the heyday of disco, Jimmy Carter, and Saturday Night Live. Growing up in North Carolina, Mark Kemp burned with shame and…

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Why read it?

1 author picked Dixie Lullaby as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

David Menconi

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In its ambition and sweep across time and political upheavals as well as musical styles, this book may have been the closest thing I had to a model for my book.

Part musical memoir and part capsule history of the American South’s era of integration, Dixie Lullaby was written by longtime music journalist Mark Kemp – a man who grew up in Asheboro, North Carolina in the 1960s and ’70s and has the Lynyrd Skynyrd and Allman Brothers records to prove it.

From David's list on The best music books to come out of North Carolina.