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Autore: | Cox Karen L. <1962-> |
Titolo: | Dreaming of Dixie [[electronic resource] ] : how the South was created in American popular culture / / Karen L. Cox |
Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975 |
Soggetto topico: | Nostalgia - Southern States |
Romanticism - Southern States | |
Popular culture - United States - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Southern States In popular culture History |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Dreaming of Dixie |
ISBN: | 1-4696-0317-9 |
0-8078-7778-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461758703321 |
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