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Southern Gothic, Kafka and Moby-Dick: Music 2573 Views
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Ah, Southern Gothic music...songs about trucks, fishing, and jeans that are scary, slow, sad, and sometimes funny. Always a crowd-pleasing genre.
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- 00:00
Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic southern gothic music
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ah la shmoop let's let's drill down on some contextual
- 00:14
elements you say there's a southern gothic genre of music
- 00:19
What is that What is southern gothic music Someone gothic
- 00:25
music is it is sort of is a new development
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- 00:29
musicians also from the south There people uh iron and
- 00:34
wine is an example of one band he's from georgia
- 00:37
There is a gentleman named will oldham from louisville kentucky
- 00:41
and they are sort of picking up where southern gothic
- 00:45
writers began this genre They're singing songs slow mod lin
- 00:51
often kind of scary but sad but also funny about
- 00:56
people of the south who are sort of having a
- 00:59
hard time living in the world that has sprung up
- 01:02
around god So it's not neil young and leonard skinner
- 01:06
right now Crying to the rail What is southern gothic 00:01:13.094 --> [endTime] music Oh you're young
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