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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790000403321

Autore

Cox Karen L. <1962->

Titolo

Dreaming of Dixie [[electronic resource] ] : how the South was created in American popular culture / / Karen L. Cox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4696-0317-9

0-8078-7778-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Classificazione

71.57

Disciplina

975

Soggetti

Nostalgia - Southern States

Romanticism - Southern States

Popular culture - United States - History

Southern States In popular culture History

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

Dixie in popular song -- Selling Dixie -- Dixie on early radio -- Dixie on film -- Dixie in literature -- Welcome to Dixie.

Sommario/riassunto

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 chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of this constructed nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, especially advertising agencies, musicians, publishers, radio personalities, writers, and filmmakers playing to consumers' a