The new encyclopedia of Southern culture. Volume 16, Sports and recreation /
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| Imprint: | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011] ©2011 |
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| Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 383 pages) : illustrations |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture New encyclopedia of Southern culture. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12630540 |
| Summary: | What southerners do, where they go, and what they expect to accomplish in their spare time, their "leisure," reveals much about their cultural values, class and racial similarities and differences, and historical perspectives. This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers an authoritative and readable reference to the culture of sports and recreation in the American South, surveying the various activities in which southerners engage in their nonwork hours, as well as attitudes surrounding those activities.<br> <br> <br> <br> Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar (porch sitting and fairs) to the essential (football and stock car racing) to the unusual (pool checkers and a sport called "fireballing"). In seventy-seven topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities (such as Dollywood, drive-ins, and the Appalachian Trail) and prominent sports figures (including Althea Gibson, Michael Jordan, Mia Hamm, and Hank Aaron). Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.<br> <br> |
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| Item Description: | "Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press"--Title page verso. One of a series of volumes that build upon the original 24 subject categories used in the Encyclopedia of Southern culture, originally published in 1989. "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 383 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781469616773 1469616777 9781469616766 1469616769 9780807834411 0807834416 9780807871737 0807871737 |