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Author Cox, Karen L., 1962-

Title Dreaming of Dixie : how the South was created in American popular culture / Karen L. Cox
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 210 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dixie in popular song -- Selling Dixie -- Dixie on early radio -- Dixie on film -- Dixie in literature -- Welcome to Dixie
Summary Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing to consumers' anxiety about modernity by marketing the South as a region still dedicated to America's pastoral traditions. Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region's past
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Nostalgia -- Southern States
Romanticism -- Southern States
Popular culture -- United States -- History
HISTORY -- State & Local.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Nostalgia
Popular culture
Romanticism
SUBJECT Southern States -- In popular culture -- History
Subject Southern States
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010041421
ISBN 9780807877784
0807877786
9781469603179
1469603179