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The Tacky South /
"As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightfu...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword: The Southern Tacky Hall of Fame / Charles Reagan Wilson
- Introduction: What would Dolly do? / Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller
- Picturing the tacky : poor white southerners in Gilded Age periodicals / Jolene Hubbs
- The tacky stuff of production, entertainment, and violence : pine tar and the American South / Joe T. Carson
- Tacky mountain cousins : the rise and continuing demise of the Appalachian stereotype in southern mountain literature / Elisabeth Aiken
- We were the bad poor : trash and the limits of tackiness / Garth Sabo
- Not your mama's tacky : huckster style as southern enterprise / Catherine Egley Waggoner
- Reading Lolita in coal country / Jimmy Dean Smith
- Eat dirt and die, trash : tacky, white southerners in The golden girls and murder, she wrote / Jill E. Anderson
- Rednecks on reality TV : The commercial act of representing rural whiteness / Aaron Duplantier
- Southern women don't wear sweatpants : southern mothers and the deceptive policing of appearance / Monica Carol Miller
- Tacky whites and elegant Creoles : the color of taste in nineteenth-century Louisiana / Jarrod Hayes
- He's nothing but a tacky : tackiness and transgression in frontier humor sketches / Katharine A. Burnett
- Outhouses and others : The Ozark tacky novels of Donald Harington / Joseph A. Farmer
- The cultural paradoxes of red velvet cake / Marshall Needleman Armintor
- Perfect reflections of human imperfections : gritty, queer tackiness in the music of robert Earl Keen / Travis A. Rountree
- That tacky little dance band from Athens, Georgia : on seams, assemblages, and the democratic beat of the B-52s / Michael P. Bibler
- Tacky-Lachian Dolly : double-d femme in the double-wide mountain South / Anna Creadick
- Rhinestone cowgirls : reification and the art of southern drag / Isabel Duarte-Gray
- In country music, women reclaim, reframe, and weaponize tacky / Susannah Young.