The novel “Segregating Sound” by Karl Hagstrom Miller, is really attempting to show what influenced people into the two sides of the musical color divide. The most interesting part to me was that the distribution of sheet music played a huge role in the color divide being created. The distribution of sheet music partly allowed for the popular music of the north to become customary in to the people of the south who hadn’t previously heard those songs. At the same time railroad expansion and traveling theater companies also allowed for northern music to embed itself in the culture of the people of the south, making popular northern music more and more common. The other interesting part of the novel to me was during chapter five when talks about how race records were being marketed to blacks while marketing “old-time,” “old familiar tunes,” or “hillbilly”  music to the whites. This has really stuck with me ever since I initially read this book because it keeps when on my toes when looking at how race impacts music today. I constantly try to see if there is a specific racial market towards genres of music today, or if the musical color divide is evaporating. Unfortunately, I think the color divide is still prevalent. Even though it may not be there to the extent of the race records that Miller talks about in his book, it is still something that is visible today when looking at, for example, rap versus country music in the United States. The color divide is not as prominent but still exists.