Research Catalog

Title

Creating and consuming the American South / edited by Martyn Bone, Brian Ward and William A. Link.

Publication

• Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bone, Martyn, 1974-
• Ward, Brian, 1961-
• Link, William A.

Description

x, 344 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

This volume explores the American South's imagery, mythology, ideas, and stories and how these constructions are created and then consumed by both residents and tourists.

Subjects

• Southern States > History
• Southern States > Social conditions
• History
• Regionalism > Southern States
• Social history

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preface: Understanding the South -- Introduction: Old/new/post/real/global/no South: paradigms and scales / Martyn Bone -- Creating and consuming the "real" South -- From Appalachian folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans look to the South for authentic culture / W. Fitzhugh Brundage -- God and the Moonpie: consumption, disenchantment, and the reliably lost cause / Scott Romine -- Toward a post-postpolitical Southern studies: on the limits of the "creating and consuming" paradigm / Jon Smith -- Creating and consuming the South: case studies -- Southern (dis)comfort: creating and consuming homosex in the Black South / E. Patrick Johnson -- Serpents in the garden: historic preservation, climate change, and the postsouthern plantation / Michael P. Bibler -- Creating and consuming "Hill Country harmonica": promoting the blues and forging beloved community in the contemporary South / Adam Gussow -- Pride at Preservation Hall: tourism, spectacle, and musicking in New Orleans jazz / Anne Dvinge -- Recovering through a cultural economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon / Helen Taylor -- Creating and consuming the South in transnational contexts -- Creating a multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American cultural and economic visibility before and after Katrina / Frank Cha -- A "Southern, brown, burnt sensibility": Four Saints in three acts, Black Spain, and the (global) Southern pastoral / Paige A. McGinley -- Southern regionalism and U.S. nationalism in William Faulkner's state department travels / Deborah Cohn -- The feeling of a heartless world: blues rhythm, oppositionality, and British rock music / Andrew Warnes -- Me and Mrs. Jones: screening working-class trans-formations of southern family values / John Howard -- Afterword: After authenticity / Tara McPherson.

Call Number

IT 15-4178

ISBN

• 9780813060699
• 0813060699

LCCN

2014048358

OCLC

889164928

Title

Creating and consuming the American South / edited by Martyn Bone, Brian Ward and William A. Link.

Publisher

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bone, Martyn, 1974- editor.

Ward, Brian, 1961- editor.

Link, William A., editor.

Research Call Number

IT 15-4178