Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South / Edition 1

by Rodger Lyle Brown, Rodger Brown

Overview

A look into deep communal meanings that emerge as small towns stage their annual festivals

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780878059065
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	02/01/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.52(d)

Editorial Reviews

Brown (American studies, Emory Univ.) has traveled across the South attending small community festivals and delving into their origins and traditions. He has created here a social history of small-town Southern communities. Using festivals such as the Rattlesnake Roundup in Whigham, Georgia, and the Chittlin' Strut in Salley, South Carolina, he successfully shows a cross-section of an America rapidly being gobbled up by larger urban areas. He maintains that the festivals are a last-ditch effort to maintain community cohesion and identity. Brown compellingly combines sometimes humorous scenarios from these festivals with revelations on the social significance they might represent. Recommended for public and academic libraries.Sandra Knowles, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

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