Sports & recreation
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Sports & recreation
（The new encyclopedia of Southern culture / Charles Reagan Wilson, general editor ; James G. Thomas Jr., managing editor ; Ann J. Abadie, associate editor, v. 16）
University of North Carolina Press, c2011
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Sports and recreation
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"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
Includes indexes
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: cloth ISBN 9780807834411
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Provides an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their non-work hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.
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: pbk ISBN 9780807871737
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What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and a sport called ""fireballing""). In seventy-seven topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun. |What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their ""leisure,"" reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.
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