Southern heritage on display [[electronic resource] ] : public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism / / edited by Celeste Ray

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453935203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2003
• ISBN: 0-8173-8225-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): RayR. Celeste
• Disciplina: 975/.043
• Soggetti: Festivals - Social aspects - Southern States; Rites and ceremonies - Southern States; Minorities - Southern States - Social life and customs; Cultural pluralism - Southern States; Group identity - Southern States; Memory - Social aspects - Southern States; Electronic books.; Southern States Social life and customs 1865-; Southern States Social conditions 1945-; Southern States Ethnic relations
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "Keeping jazz funerals alive" : blackness and the politics of memory in New Orleans / Helen A. Regis -- The mardi gras Indian song cycle : a heroic tradition / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- "There's a dance every weekend" : powwow culture in southeast North Carolina / Clyde Ellis -- Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift -- Kin-religious gatherings : display for an "inner public" / Gwen Kennedy Neville -- Religious healing in southern Appalachian communities / Susan Emley Keefe -- Viva Mexico! : Mexican independence day festivals in central Florida / Joan Flocks and Paul Monaghan -- Forget the Alamo : fiesta and San Antonio's public memory / Laura Ehrisman -- "Where the Old South still lives" : displaying heritage in Natchez, Mississippi / Steven Hoelscher -- "'Thigibh!' means 'y'all come!'" : renegotiating regional memories through Scottish heritage celebration ; / Celeste Ray.
• Sommario/riassunto: This provocative collection draws on extensive ethnographic fieldwork to shed light on the role that public ceremonies play in affirming or debunking cultural identities associated with the South. W. J. Cash's 1941 observation that ""there are many Souths and many cultural traditions among them"" is certainly validated by this book. Although the Civil War and its ""lost cause"" tradition continues to serve as a cultural root paradigm in celebrations, both uniting and dividing loyalties, southerners also embrace a panoply of public rituals--parades, cook-offs, kinship homecom-ings, church assem