Dixie debates : perspectives on Southern cultures
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Dixie debates : perspectives on Southern cultures
Pluto Press, 1996
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: pbk ISBN 9780745309576
Description
This volume offers perspectives on cultural studies in general and forms of popular Southern culture in particular - from rock and roll and Cajun music, to the impact on the South of the tourism industry. Questions of genre and race in contemporary film-making are also examined.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Contexts: African and European roots of Southern culture - the "central theme" revisited, Charles Joyner (University of South Carolina)
- African self-taught artists from the South, Judith McWillie (University of Georgia). Part 2 Southern cultures: the reception of Southern writing in Britain and in Europe, Paul Binding
- "I've got a right to sing the blues" - Alice Walker's aesthetic, Maria Lauret (University of Southampton)
- l'acadie retrouvee - the re-making of cajun identity in Southwestern Louisiana, 1968-94, Robert Lewis (University of Birmingham)
- living Southern in "Southern Living", Diane Roberts. Part 3 Southern music: the academic Elvis, Simon Frith (Strathclyde University)
- the last rebel - Southern rock and nostalgic continuities, Paul Wells (De Montfort University, Leicester)
- "Bringing the Races Closer"? - Black-oriented radio in the South and the civil rights movement, Brian Ward (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) and Jenny Walker (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
- "Shakin'your butt for the tourist' - music's role in the identification and selling of New Orleans, Connie Atkinson (Liverpool University). Part 4 Southern film: into the light - the whiteness of the South in the birth of a nation, Richard Dyer (Warwick University)
- Oscar Micheaux meets, D.W. Griffith, Jane Gaines (Duke University, North Carolina)
- masculinity and white narcissism in "Mississippi Burning", Lola Young (Middlesex University).
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ISBN 9780814746837
Description
The contemporary American South is a region of economic expansion, political sophistication, and, particularly, cultural ferment. Its literature is well-known and celebrated. But what of the popular cultural forms of expression that have done so much to reflect the curious tensions between the traditional South--white-dominated, rural, religous--and contemporary multicultural forms and discourses? This collection offers a wealth of exciting new perspectives on cultural studies in general and of the particular forms of popular Southern culture--from rock and roll to Cajun music to the impact on the South of tourism and the questions of genre and race in contemporary film-making.
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