Creating and Consuming the American South

Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University. Brian Ward is professor in American studies at Northumbria University. William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. They are coeditors of Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South and The American South and the Atlantic World.

“The essays are broad-ranging in their methodology, bringing the insights of literary studies, queer studies, cinema studies, dramaturgy, musicology, ecocentricism, and other fields . . . to bear on the question at hand.” ―Journal of Southern History“Offers new perspectives on southern music . . . ‘southern family values’ . . . and the agrarian tradition. . . . Recommended.” ―Choice“Provocative and insightful.” ―North Carolina Historical Review

• List of FiguresPreface: Understanding the SouthIntroduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales — Martyn BonePart I. Creating and Consuming the "Real" South1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture — W. Fitzhugh Brundage2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause — Scott Romine3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the "Creating and Consuming" Paradigm — Jon SmithPart II. Creating and Consuming the South: Case Studies4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South — E. Patrick Johnson5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation — Michael P. Bibler6. Creating and Consuming "Hill Country Harmonica": Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South — Adam Gussow7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz — Anne Dvinge8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon — Helen TaylorPart III. Creating and Consuming the South in Transnational Contexts9. Creating a Multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American Cultural and Economic Visibility before and after Katrina — Frank Cha10. A "Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility": Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral — Paige A. McGinley11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner's State Department Travels — Deborah Cohn12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music — Andrew Warnes13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values — John HowardAfterword: After Authenticity — Tara McPhersonList of ContributorsIndex