Title The South of the mind : American imaginings of white southernness, 1960-1980 / Zachary J. Lechner

Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South 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 Summary "This interdisciplinary work is driven by the question, 'What can imaginings of the South reveal about the recent American past?' In it, Zachary J. 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 and served as a fantasied refuge from the era's political and cultural fragmentations, namely, the perceived problems associated with urbanization and 'rootlessness.' The book demonstrates that we cannot hope to understand recent U.S. history without exploring how people have conceived the South"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Civilization SUBJECT Southern States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125635 Southern States -- History -- 1951- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125650 Subject Southern States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780820353708 0820353701

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