The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980

The South of the Mind: American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960-1980
ISBN-10
0820353906
ISBN-13
9780820353906
Category
History
Pages
232
Language
English
Published
2018-09-15
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Author
Zachary J. Lechner

Description

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

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