I am currenlty involved in a research project for Boston University that seeks to analyze the transculturation process which took place between the two early rural music genres- "race" and "hillbilly." What differenciates this project from most others is that it will not be concerned with the approriation of african american music by whites, which has already been written about at length, but rather the extent to which african american's approriated and learned from white musicians as well, which country music scholar and the venerable former MTSU professor Charles K Wolfe briefly describes in his liner notes to White Country Blues 1926-1938 (CD). Does anybody have any ideas of places to begin researching? journal articles, books, specific recordings? thanks alot.

matthew b