Dreaming of Dixie
Title | Dreaming of Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0807834718 |
From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chival
Day Dreams in Dixie
Title | Day Dreams in Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Mrs. George David Webb |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 1924 |
Genre | Mimesis in literature |
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Dixie Dreams
Title | Dixie Dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Cal De Voll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | Popular music |
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Reinventing Dixie
Title | Reinventing Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | John Bush Jones |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2015-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 080715945X |
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 view of the South as a land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In profiles of Tin Pan Alley’s lyricists and composers, Jones explains how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers—the vast majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants— constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin Pan Alley’s songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters’ attitudes about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality, and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley’s era of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends that the work of its writers had cemented the “moonlight and magnolias” myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic vision of the South that continues to influence the American imagination.
Day Dreams from Dixie
Title | Day Dreams from Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Cecil Rodgers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | African Americans |
ISBN |
Destination Dixie
Title | Destination Dixie PDF eBook |
Author | Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | University Press of Florida |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0813063647 |
Once upon a time, it was impossible to drive through the South without coming across signs to “See Rock City” or similar tourist attractions. From battlegrounds to birthplaces, and sites in between, heritage tourism has always been part of how the South attracts visitors—and defines itself—yet such sites are often understudied in the scholarly literature. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the narrative of southern history told at these sites is often complicated by race, influenced by local politics, and shaped by competing memories. Included are essays on the meanings of New Orleans cemeteries; Stone Mountain, Georgia; historic Charleston, South Carolina; Yorktown National Battlefield; Selma, Alabama, as locus of the civil rights movement; and the homes of Mark Twain, Margaret Mitchell, and other notables. Destination Dixie reveals that heritage tourism in the South is about more than just marketing destinations and filling hotel rooms; it cuts to the heart of how southerners seek to shape their identity and image for a broader touring public—now often made up of northerners and southerners alike.
Dixie dreams
Title | Dixie dreams PDF eBook |
Author | Cal De Voll |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | |
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