| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 383 pages) : illustrations |
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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
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New encyclopedia of Southern culture.
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| Contents |
Leisure, sports, and all sorts of recreation -- All-day singings -- Amusement and theme parks -- Baseball -- Basketball -- Beaches -- Beaches, black, Jim Crow era -- Blood sports -- Boxing -- Buck dancing, flatfooting, and clogging --Card parties -- Cheerleading and twirling -- Children's games, traditional -- Civil War reenactments -- Cockfighting -- Debutantes -- Drinking -- Fairs -- Family reunions -- Festivals -- Festivals, music -- Fiddle contests -- Field trials -- Fireballing -- Fishing -- Football, college -- Football, high school -- Football, professional -- Football traditions -- Fox hunting -- Gambling -- Gardening -- Golf -- Holidays -- Horses -- House parties -- Hunting -- Juke joints and honky-tonks -- Line dancing -- Marching bands -- Marching bands, HBCU -- Mardi Gras -- Noodling -- Passing the time -- Pets -- Picking sessions -- Pool checkers -- Porch sitting -- Quail hunting -- Quinceañeras -- Rafting and canoeing -- Resorts -- Restaurants -- Ring shouts -- Ring tournaments -- Rock climbing -- Rodeo -- Running -- Shopping -- Soccer -- Square dancing -- Stepping -- Stock car racing -- Storytelling -- Tennis -- Tourism -- Tourism, automobile -- Tourism, culinary -- Tourism, cultural -- Traveling shows -- Two stepping -- Visiting -- Water skiing -- Whittling -- Wrestling |
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Hank Aaron -- Muhammad Ali -- Annual interstate mullet toss -- Appalachian Trail -- Arthur Ashe -- Leah Marie Rawls Atkins -- Atlantic Beach, South Carolina -- Big Bend National Park -- Blue Ridge Parkway -- Bobby Bowden -- Paul "Bear" Bryant -- Busch Gardens -- Everett Case -- Casinos, Mississippi -- Christmas -- Ty Cobb -- Colonial Williamsburg -- Daytona 500 -- "Dizzy" Dean -- Disney World -- Dogpatch USA -- Dollywood -- Drive-in theaters -- Dale Earnhardt -- Easter -- Everglades National Park -- Chris Evert -- Brett Favre -- Flora-Bama Lounge and Package -- Fourth of July -- Althea Gibson -- Gilley's -- Graceland -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Mia Hamm -- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina -- Hooters -- Hot Springs National Park -- Junior Johnson -- Bobby Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Jubilees -- Juneteenth -- Kentucky Derby -- Lambert's Café -- Louisiana State Lottery Company -- Mammoth Cave National Park -- Manning family -- Peter Maravich -- Mid-south wrestling -- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina -- NASCAR -- Negro baseball leagues -- Satchel Paige -- Richard Petty -- Prison rodeos -- Redneck Riviera -- Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail -- Eddie Robinson -- Adolph Frederick Rupp -- St. Cecilia Ball -- Seaside, Florida -- "See Rock City" -- Showboats -- Silver Dollary City -- Dean Smith -- South by Southwest -- South of the Border -- Spoleto Festival USA -- Ken "Kenny" Michael Stabler (aka "Snake") -- Pat Summitt -- Talladega Superspeedway -- Texas Western vs. Kentucky -- Toasts and dozens -- Herschel Walker -- Womanless weddings -- Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias |
| Summary |
What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities. Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and a sport called "fireballing"). In seventy-seven topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun |
| Notes |
"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso |
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One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989 |
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"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sports -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Recreation -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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Popular culture -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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HISTORY -- General.
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Leisure -- Social aspects
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Manners and customs
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Popular culture
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Recreation
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Sports
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| SUBJECT |
Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias
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Southern States
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Electronic books
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encyclopedias.
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Encyclopedias
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Encyclopedias.
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Encyclopédies.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jackson, Harvey H., editor
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Wilson, Charles Reagan, editor
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Thomas, James G., Jr., editor.
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Abadie, Ann J., editor
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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture, sponsoring body.
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| ISBN |
9781469616773 |
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1469616777 |
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9781469616766 |
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1469616769 |
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