Long ago, in a time available to us in the dirty crackle and hiss of 78s with worn labels, an African American singer who had traveled for 15 years on the medicine show circuit committed to shellac a ...
Florence Dore
Florence Dore is professor of American Literature at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she has been on the faculty since 2010. She has just completed Novel Sounds: Southern Ballad Fiction in the Age of Rock and Roll (2018), and she is working on a sequel, Novel Sounds II: The Rock Novel in Contemporary American Fiction. In 2016 and 2017 Dore convened “Novel Sounds,” a public conference and concert series at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. She was co-editor of the Post45 Book Series at Stanford University Press from 2009 to 2014, and she remains a member of Post45’s Steering Committee. 