Research Catalog

Title

The tacky South / edited by Katharine A. Burnett & Monica Carol Miller ; foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Burnett, Katharine A., 1983-
• Miller, Monica Carol, 1974-
• Wilson, Charles Reagan

Description

xvii, 293 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"As a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word "tacky" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called "tackies" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series Murder, She Wrote to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, The Tacky South explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity"--

Series Statement

Southern literary studies

Uniform Title

Southern literary studies.

Subject

• Parton, Dolly
• Tackiness > Southern States
• Aesthetics, American
• Civilization
• Public opinion
• Tackiness
• Southern States > In popular culture
• Southern States > Public opinion
• Southern States > Civilization
• Southern States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword: The Southern Tacky Hall of Fame / Charles Reagan Wilson -- Introduction: What would Dolly do? / Katharine A. Burnett and Monica Carol Miller -- Picturing the tacky : poor white southerners in Gilded Age periodicals / Jolene Hubbs -- The tacky stuff of production, entertainment, and violence : pine tar and the American South / Joe T. Carson -- Tacky mountain cousins : the rise and continuing demise of the Appalachian stereotype in southern mountain literature / Elisabeth Aiken -- We were the bad poor : trash and the limits of tackiness / Garth Sabo -- Not your mama's tacky : huckster style as southern enterprise / Catherine Egley Waggoner -- Reading Lolita in coal country / Jimmy Dean Smith -- Eat dirt and die, trash : tacky, white southerners in The golden girls and murder, she wrote / Jill E. Anderson -- Rednecks on reality TV : The commercial act of representing rural whiteness / Aaron Duplantier -- Southern women don't wear sweatpants : southern mothers and the deceptive policing of appearance / Monica Carol Miller -- Tacky whites and elegant Creoles : the color of taste in nineteenth-century Louisiana / Jarrod Hayes -- He's nothing but a tacky : tackiness and transgression in frontier humor sketches / Katharine A. Burnett -- Outhouses and others : The Ozark tacky novels of Donald Harington / Joseph A. Farmer -- The cultural paradoxes of red velvet cake / Marshall Needleman Armintor -- Perfect reflections of human imperfections : gritty, queer tackiness in the music of robert Earl Keen / Travis A. Rountree -- That tacky little dance band from Athens, Georgia : on seams, assemblages, and the democratic beat of the B-52s / Michael P. Bibler -- Tacky-Lachian Dolly : double-d femme in the double-wide mountain South / Anna Creadick -- Rhinestone cowgirls : reification and the art of southern drag / Isabel Duarte-Gray -- In country music, women reclaim, reframe, and weaponize tacky / Susannah Young.

Call Number

JFE 22-3853

ISBN

• 9780807177341
• 0807177342
• 9780807177891
• 080717789X

LCCN

2021053985

OCLC

1281587329

Title

The tacky South / edited by Katharine A. Burnett & Monica Carol Miller ; foreword by Charles Reagan Wilson.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Southern literary studies

Southern literary studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: FISK UNIVERSITY.

Added Author

Burnett, Katharine A., 1983- editor.

Miller, Monica Carol, 1974- editor.

Wilson, Charles Reagan, writer of foreword.

Other Form:

Online version: Tacky South Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022] 9780807177907 (DLC) 2021053986

Research Call Number

JFE 22-3853