02605nam 2200637 a 450 991079000040332120200520144314.01-4696-0317-90-8078-7778-6(CKB)2670000000088811(EBL)690707(OCoLC)725853744(SSID)ssj0000522123(PQKBManifestationID)11336240(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000522123(PQKBWorkID)10527431(PQKB)11326590(OCoLC)966822740(MdBmJHUP)muse48644(Au-PeEL)EBL690707(CaPaEBR)ebr10468957(CaONFJC)MIL932096(MiAaPQ)EBC690707(EXLCZ)99267000000008881120100930d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrDreaming of Dixie[electronic resource] how the South was created in American popular culture /Karen L. CoxChapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20111 online resource (225 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4696-0986-X 0-8078-3471-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Dixie in popular song -- Selling Dixie -- Dixie on early radio -- Dixie on film -- Dixie in literature -- Welcome to Dixie.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' aNostalgiaSouthern StatesRomanticismSouthern StatesPopular cultureUnited StatesHistorySouthern StatesIn popular cultureHistoryNostalgiaRomanticismPopular cultureHistory.97571.57bclCox Karen L.1962-1544691MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790000403321Dreaming of Dixie3850882UNINA