About
Southern Sounds is a digital history project that seeks to find the lyrical similarities and differences between Old Time and Blues music. It rests squarely on the premise that if modern text analysis software could be used to analyze the lyrical content of the two genres, the results could provide insights as to the themes and characteristics that distinguished the them. Knowing these themes and characteristics, then, could be used to reconstruct the word views of the black bluesmen--and women--and the Old Time country singers.