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The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 16: Sports and Recreation

Charles Reagan Wilson

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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.
Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar to the essential to the unusual . In seventy-eight topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities and prominent sports figures . Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The

Release: January 15, 2011

ISBN: 0807834416

ISBN 13: 9780807834411

The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 16: Sports and Recreation

Charles Reagan Wilson

0/5 ( ratings)

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.
Seventy-four thematic essays explore activities from the familiar to the essential to the unusual . In seventy-eight topical entries, contributors profile major sites associated with recreational activities and prominent sports figures . Taken together, the entries provide an engaging look at the ways southerners relax, pass time, celebrate, let loose, and have fun.

Pages: 368

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The

Release: January 15, 2011

ISBN: 0807834416

ISBN 13: 9780807834411

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