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Dreaming of Dixie : how the South was created in American popular culture / Karen L. Cox.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Karen L., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nostalgia--Southern States.
- Nostalgia.
- Romanticism--Southern States.
- Romanticism.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Southern States--In popular culture--History.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- Dixie in popular song
- Selling Dixie
- Dixie on early radio
- Dixie on film
- Dixie in literature
- Welcome to Dixie.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908842-9-9
- 1-4696-0317-9
- 0-8078-7778-6
- OCLC:
- 725853744
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