Creating and Consuming the American South [electronic resource].
Bone, Martyn.
Ward, Brian.
Link, William A.
Stories of decline, endurance, invasion, and resistance have shaped southern identity. Whether they originate in chambers of commerce, neo-Confederate websites, jazz songs, or forces outside the region, the narratives and images that give shape to "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications.  Featuring interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished scholars, this volume explores how such narratives and images have been produced and how they have shaped perceptions about the South and southernness that register at various local, regional, national, and transnational
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Cover; Creating and Consuming the American South; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Preface: Understanding the South; Introduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales; PART I. CREATING AND CONSUMING THE "REAL" SOUTH; 1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture; 2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause; 3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the "Creating and Consuming" Paradigm; PART II. CREATING AND CONSUMING THE SOUTH: CASE STUDIES
4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation; 6. Creating and Consuming "Hill Country Harmonica": Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South; 7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz; 8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon; PART III. CREATING AND CONSUMING THE SOUTH IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS
9. Creating a Multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American Cultural and Economic Visibility before and after Katrina10. A "Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility": Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral; 11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner's State Department Travels; 12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music; 13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values; Afterword: After Authenticity; List of Contributors; Index
Stories of decline, endurance, invasion, and resistance have shaped southern identity. Whether they originate in chambers of commerce, neo-Confederate websites, jazz songs, or forces outside the region, the narratives and images that give shape to "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications.  Featuring interdisciplinary contributions from distinguished scholars, this volume explores how such narratives and images have been produced and how they have shaped perceptions about the South and southernness that register at various local, regional, national, and transnational
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 24, 2015).
Regionalism -- Southern States.
Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Regionalism
Regions & Countries - Americas
History & Archaeology
United States Local History