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The tacky South

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]

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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
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