Helen Morales moved from Cambridge, England, to Santa Barbara, California, where she is the Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Morales has made a moving, provocative pilgrimage through the complex culture—mainly southern—that produces country music and some of its outsized performers. I found her very readable.”

• 1          Caviar and Fish Sticks2          A Series of CravingsGraceland and Other Shrines, Memphis3          Country Is as Country DoesLoretta Lynn’s Ranch, Hurricane Mills4          Music City, USANashville5          Tennessee Mountain HomesPigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Locust Ridge6          Color Me AmericaDixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge7          Sifting Specks of GoldDollywood Amusement Park, the Great Smoky MountainsDoing the PilgrimageFurther ReadingAcknowledgments

Helen Morales moved from Cambridge, England, to Santa Barbara, California, where she is the Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Morales has made a moving, provocative pilgrimage through the complex culture—mainly southern—that produces country music and some of its outsized performers. I found her very readable.”

• 1          Caviar and Fish Sticks2          A Series of CravingsGraceland and Other Shrines, Memphis3          Country Is as Country DoesLoretta Lynn’s Ranch, Hurricane Mills4          Music City, USANashville5          Tennessee Mountain HomesPigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Locust Ridge6          Color Me AmericaDixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge7          Sifting Specks of GoldDollywood Amusement Park, the Great Smoky MountainsDoing the PilgrimageFurther ReadingAcknowledgments

Helen Morales moved from Cambridge, England, to Santa Barbara, California, where she is the Argyropoulos Professor of Hellenic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Morales has made a moving, provocative pilgrimage through the complex culture—mainly southern—that produces country music and some of its outsized performers. I found her very readable.”

• 1          Caviar and Fish Sticks2          A Series of CravingsGraceland and Other Shrines, Memphis3          Country Is as Country DoesLoretta Lynn’s Ranch, Hurricane Mills4          Music City, USANashville5          Tennessee Mountain HomesPigeon Forge, Gatlinburg, Sevierville, and Locust Ridge6          Color Me AmericaDixie Stampede, Pigeon Forge7          Sifting Specks of GoldDollywood Amusement Park, the Great Smoky MountainsDoing the PilgrimageFurther ReadingAcknowledgments