Southern heritage on display [electronic resource] : public ritual and ethnic diversity within southern regionalism / edited by Celeste Ray.

Contributor(s): Ray, R. Celeste | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2003Description: viii, 301 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Festivals -- Social aspects -- Southern States | Rites and ceremonies -- Southern States | Minorities -- Southern States -- Social life and customs | Cultural pluralism -- Southern States | Group identity -- Southern States | Memory -- Social aspects -- Southern States | Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1865- | Southern States -- Social conditions -- 1945- | Southern States -- Ethnic relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 975/.043 LOC classification: F216.2 | .S617 2003Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
"Keeping jazz funerals alive" : blackness and the politics of memory in New Orleans / Helen A. Regis -- The mardi gras Indian song cycle : a heroic tradition / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- "There's a dance every weekend" : powwow culture in southeast North Carolina / Clyde Ellis -- Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift -- Kin-religious gatherings : display for an "inner public" / Gwen Kennedy Neville -- Religious healing in southern Appalachian communities / Susan Emley Keefe -- Viva Mexico! : Mexican independence day festivals in central Florida / Joan Flocks and Paul Monaghan -- Forget the Alamo : fiesta and San Antonio's public memory / Laura Ehrisman -- "Where the Old South still lives" : displaying heritage in Natchez, Mississippi / Steven Hoelscher -- "'Thigibh!' means 'y'all come!'" : renegotiating regional memories through Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Keeping jazz funerals alive" : blackness and the politics of memory in New Orleans / Helen A. Regis -- The mardi gras Indian song cycle : a heroic tradition / Kathryn VanSpanckeren -- "There's a dance every weekend" : powwow culture in southeast North Carolina / Clyde Ellis -- Melungeons and the politics of heritage / Melissa Schrift -- Kin-religious gatherings : display for an "inner public" / Gwen Kennedy Neville -- Religious healing in southern Appalachian communities / Susan Emley Keefe -- Viva Mexico! : Mexican independence day festivals in central Florida / Joan Flocks and Paul Monaghan -- Forget the Alamo : fiesta and San Antonio's public memory / Laura Ehrisman -- "Where the Old South still lives" : displaying heritage in Natchez, Mississippi / Steven Hoelscher -- "'Thigibh!' means 'y'all come!'" : renegotiating regional memories through Scottish heritage celebration / Celeste Ray.

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