Shared traditions : Southern history and folk culture /

Shared traditions : Southern history and folk culture /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joyner, Charles W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999]
Subjects:
Folklore > Southern States.
Folklore and history > Southern States.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Southern States > Social life and customs.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Southern folk culture: unity in 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
  • Notes
  • Index.