Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture - Hardcover

Cox, Karen L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807834718 ISBN 13: 9780807834718

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Synopsis

From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen 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. In addition, Cox examines how southerners themselves embraced the imaginary romance of the region's past.

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Book Description:

" Dreaming of Dixie is an extraordinary book that reveals how the South 'rose again' as publishing houses, television, radio, film studios, and advertising firms in New York and Los Angeles created nostalgic myths of the antebellum South. Cox has written a landmark study that shows how corporate America and Hollywood embraced and exploited the South's culture and history to market its products."--William Ferris, author of Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0807834718
• ISBN 13: 9780807834718
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210