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The South of the mind : American imaginings of white southernness, 1960-1980 /

"This interdisciplinary work is driven by the question, 'What can imaginings of the South reveal about the recent American past?' In it, Zachary J. Lechner bridges the fields of southern studies, southern history, and post-World War II American cultural and popular culture history in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lechner, Zachary J., 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Colección:Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Raising the white South
  • The many faces of the South: national images of white southernness during the civil rights era, 1960-1971
  • "This world from the standpoint of a rocking chair": country-rock and the South in the countercultural imagination
  • "When in doubt, kick ass": the masculine South(s) of George Wallace, Walking tall, and Deliverance
  • A tale of two Souths: the Allman Brothers Band's countercultural southernness and Lynyrd Skynyrd's rebel macho
  • "I respect a good southern white man": Jimmy Carter's healing southernness and the 1976 presidential campaign
  • Epilogue. Playing that dead band's song
  • Appendix. Southern rock in the 1970s: survey questions.