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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Lechner, Zachary J., 1979- South of the mind. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018] (DLC) 2018008667 (OCoLC)1028581908 |
Material Type: | Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Zachary J Lechner |
ISBN: | 9780820353708 0820353701 |
OCLC Number: | 1048896155 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction. Raising the white South -- The many faces of the South: national images of white southernness during the civil rights era, 1960-1971 -- "This world from the standpoint of a rocking chair": country-rock and the South in the countercultural imagination -- "When in doubt, kick ass": the masculine South(s) of George Wallace, Walking tall, and Deliverance -- A tale of two Souths: the Allman Brothers Band's countercultural southernness and Lynyrd Skynyrd's rebel macho -- "I respect a good southern white man": Jimmy Carter's healing southernness and the 1976 presidential campaign -- Epilogue. Playing that dead band's song -- Appendix. Southern rock in the 1970s: survey questions. |
Series Title: | Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South. |
Responsibility: | Zachary J. Lechner. |
Abstract:
Uses imaginings of the South to illuminate the recent American past. Zachary Lechner bridges the fields of southern studies, southern history, and post- World War II American cultural and popular culture history in an effort to discern how conceptions of a tradition-bound, "timeless" South shaped Americans' views of themselves and their society.
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