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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1999.Description: xiii, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0252015215 (acid-free paper)
  • 9780252015212 (acid-free paper)
  • 025206772X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
  • 9780252067723 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • F209 .J69 1999
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-348) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- Notes -- Index.