Shared traditions
Subtitle: Southern history and folk culture
By: Charles Joyner.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Subjects: Folklore -- Southern States.; Folklore and history -- Southern States.; Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.; Southern States -- Social life and customs.
Description: By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans.

The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folkgroups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea Islands, immigration, the civil rights movement, and the effects of cultural tourism.

Ranging from rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation to the creolization of language to the musical brew of blues, country, jazz, and rock, Shared Traditions reveals the distinctive culture born of a sharing by black and white southerners of their deep-rooted and diverse traditions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-348) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Southern folk culture: unity in in diversity; title: " Let us break bread together": cultural interaction in the old South; title: "In his hands": the world of the plantation slaves; title: History as ritual: rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation; title: "Guilty of holiest crime": the passion of John Brown; title: The South as a folk culture: David Potter and the Southern enigma; title: The bold Fischer man: David Hackett Fischer and the British sources of American folk culture; title: The narrowing gyre: Henry Glassie, Irish folk culture, and the American South; title: A community of memory: assimilation and identity among the Jews of Georgetown; title: The sounds of Southern culture: blues, country, jazz, and rock; title: Sweet music: tradition, creativity, and the Appalachian dulcimer; title: Sea Island legacy: folk tradition and the civil rights movement; title: "Alice of the Hermitage": a study in legend, belief, and history; title: A model for the analysis of folklore performance in historical context; title: Folklore and social transformation: historians and folklorists in the modern world; title: Endangered traditions: resort development and cultural conservation on the Sea Islands; title: Notes; title: Index.