![]() UNC has The Southern Folklife Collection, which is the biggest archive of all things Southern - music, foodways, everything. ![]() Later, in one of the first doctoral seminars I took, the professors asked us to do an archival project. I went back to school and got a master’s in musicology at Hunter College. I started teaching music history, and I got interested in that. I taught the elements of music - rhythm, harmony, technique - through pop music. We had general music education for students who are not in band, orchestra, or chorus. I enjoyed teaching music history to students. I taught band in New York, which is where I live again now, and I was enjoying it, but I couldn’t envision myself forty years later as being a band director. How did that lead to the writing of this book? Every artist is a vessel for everything they’ve experienced, and some of it shows up in different ways. Everything I write and play, it all comes out of me in some way. As far as my own sound, it’s music I’ve listened to my entire life. Various bands I played in covered songs by Aretha or The Staples, or whomever. “Sweet Home Alabama” became the signature song of my high school cover band in the mid-1980s. How does the music of Muscle Shoals relate to and influence your own sound? He has also toured the United States, Canada, and Western Europe as a guitar technician and tour manager for Chris Whitley, and as a guitar, bass, and drum tech for David Gray.īelow, he talks about the music of Muscle Shoals and its influence on this American sound. His published work appears in Southern Cultures, the New Grove Dictionary of American Music, and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Reali is a cultural musicologist who studies popular music by examining the relationships between local music scenes and the national music industry. The result is his new book, Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. ![]() As a lifelong fan, he began a ten-year investigation into the business of making music in Muscle Shoals. When he returned to school to study musicology, he noticed little scholarship on Muscle Shoals, Alabama, the region of the South from which he argues some of the most influential music in America springs. Author Christopher Reali began his career as a music teacher, but he said he was always a student of music history, beginning when he used to be an avid reader of liner notes as a young musician. ![]()
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