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Author Lechner, Zachary J., 1979- author.

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

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South
Politics and culture in the twentieth-century South.
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.
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.
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Subject Southern States -- Civilization.
Southern States.
Civilization.
Southern States -- History -- 1951-
History.
Chronological Term 1951-
Since 1951
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Lechner, Zachary J., 1979- South of the mind. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018] 9780820353715 (DLC) 2018008667 (OCoLC)1028581908
ISBN 9780820353708 (electronic book)
0820353701 (electronic book)
9780820353715
082035371X
9780820353906
0820353906