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Shared traditions : Southern history and folk culture / Charles Joyner.

By: Joyner, Charles W
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xiii, 361 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 025206772X (pbk. : acidfree paper); 0252015215 (acid-free paper)Subject(s): Southern States -- Social life and customs | Folklore -- Southern States | Folklore and history -- Southern States | Plantation life -- Southern States -- HistoryDDC classification: 975 LOC classification: F209 | .J69 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-348) and index.
Contents:
Southern folk culture: unity in diversity -- " Let us break bread together": cultural interaction in the old South -- "In his hands": the world of the plantation slaves -- History as ritual: rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation -- "Guilty of holiest crime": the passion of John Brown -- The South as a folk culture: David Potter and the Southern enigma -- The bold Fischer man: David Hackett Fischer and the British sources of American folk culture -- The narrowing gyre: Henry Glassie, Irish folk culture, and the American South --A community of memory: assimilation and identity among the Jews of Georgetown -- The sounds of Southern culture: blues, country, jazz, and rock -- Sweet music: tradition, creativity, and the Appalachian dulcimer -- Sea Island legacy: folk tradition and the civil rights movement -- "Alice of the Hermitage": a study in legend, belief, and history -- A model for the analysis of folklore performance in historical context -- Folklore and social transformation: historians and folklorists in the modern world -- Endangered traditions: resort development and cultural conservation on the Sea Islands.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library 1 West F209 .J69 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902366703

Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-348) and index.

Southern folk culture: unity in diversity -- " Let us break bread together": cultural interaction in the old South -- "In his hands": the world of the plantation slaves -- History as ritual: rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation -- "Guilty of holiest crime": the passion of John Brown -- The South as a folk culture: David Potter and the Southern enigma -- The bold Fischer man: David Hackett Fischer and the British sources of American folk culture -- The narrowing gyre: Henry Glassie, Irish folk culture, and the American South --A community of memory: assimilation and identity among the Jews of Georgetown -- The sounds of Southern culture: blues, country, jazz, and rock -- Sweet music: tradition, creativity, and the Appalachian dulcimer -- Sea Island legacy: folk tradition and the civil rights movement -- "Alice of the Hermitage": a study in legend, belief, and history -- A model for the analysis of folklore performance in historical context -- Folklore and social transformation: historians and folklorists in the modern world -- Endangered traditions: resort development and cultural conservation on the Sea Islands.

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