Reinventing Dixie : Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South /

Tin Pan Alley, once New York City's songwriting and recording mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie, John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in creating and disseminating the imaginary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, John Bush (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Popular music > Southern States > History and criticism > 20th century.
Southern States > Songs and music > 20th century > History and criticism
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue : why Dixie?
  • The alley and its denizens
  • Weepy time down south : early sentiment and sentimentality
  • Typecasting : Southern social and ethnic, that is
  • "Y'all come" : Southern hospitality, conviviality, and leisure-time fun
  • Dixie is for lovers
  • Undercutting the idyllic : realism, satire, and parody
  • "All aboard for Dixie land" : homesickness, traveling home, and "mammy songs"
  • Glorifying Dixie : southern myths and Southern pride
  • Moonlight and magnolias : the alley and the myth
  • Epilogue : the years they drove old Dixie down.

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