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Plain folk of the South revisited / edited by Samuel C. Hyde, Jr.

Contributor(s): Hyde, Samuel C, 1958-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: xix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0807122009 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780807122006 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Congresses | Southern States -- Social conditions -- Congresses | Working class -- Southern States -- History -- Congresses | Middle class -- Southern States -- History -- CongressesDDC classification: 975 LOC classification: F209 | .P57 1997Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Home, labor, and leisure -- Neither Anglo-Saxon nor Celtic : the music of the Southern plain folk / Bill C. Malone -- Vernacular architecture of the South : log buildings, dog-trot houses, and English barns / Jerah Johnson -- Herders, farmers, and markets on the inner frontier : the Mississippi piney woods, 1850-1860 / Bradley G. Bond -- Question of peonage in the history of the New South / J. William Harris -- Social groups and attitudes -- Southern women and the Sunday-school movement, 1865-1915 / Sally G. McMillen -- Shades of ambiguity : comparing Antebellum free people of color in "Anglo" Alabama and "Latin" Louisiana / Gary B. Mills -- Crackers and cavaliers : shared courage / Grady McWhiney -- Plain-folk democracy and its limits -- Popular ideology of the Old South's plain folk : the limits of egalitarianism in a slaveholding society / Lacy K. Ford -- Backcountry justice in the piney-woods south / Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. -- New South demagoguery / Michael L. Kurtz.

Based on a symposium held in spring 1996 at Southeastern Louisiana University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Home, labor, and leisure -- Neither Anglo-Saxon nor Celtic : the music of the Southern plain folk / Bill C. Malone -- Vernacular architecture of the South : log buildings, dog-trot houses, and English barns / Jerah Johnson -- Herders, farmers, and markets on the inner frontier : the Mississippi piney woods, 1850-1860 / Bradley G. Bond -- Question of peonage in the history of the New South / J. William Harris -- Social groups and attitudes -- Southern women and the Sunday-school movement, 1865-1915 / Sally G. McMillen -- Shades of ambiguity : comparing Antebellum free people of color in "Anglo" Alabama and "Latin" Louisiana / Gary B. Mills -- Crackers and cavaliers : shared courage / Grady McWhiney -- Plain-folk democracy and its limits -- Popular ideology of the Old South's plain folk : the limits of egalitarianism in a slaveholding society / Lacy K. Ford -- Backcountry justice in the piney-woods south / Samuel C. Hyde, Jr. -- New South demagoguery / Michael L. Kurtz.

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