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Memphis and the Paradox of Place : Globalization in the American South /

Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B. B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy - the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination - and a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rushing, Wanda
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolinia Press, 2009.
Édition:1st ed.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Globalization and the South : Memphis and the paradoxes of place
  • Neither old South nor new South : Memphis and the paradoxes of identity
  • Urban space and place : Memphis and the paradoxes of power
  • Cotton fields, cargo planes, and biotechnology : Memphis and the paradoxes of development
  • Globalization and popular culture : Memphis and the paradoxes of innovation
  • Gender, race, ritual, and social power : Memphis and the paradoxes of tradition
  • Place matters : continuity and discontinuity.