The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Sports and Recreation v. 16: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807871737 ISBN 13: 9780807871737

Publisher: University North Carolina Pr, 2010

Synopsis

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 (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.

About this title

About the Author

Charles Reagan Wilson, a Texan, is professor of history and southern studies at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920 and editor of Religion in the South

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University North Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807871737
• ISBN 13: 9780807871737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Wilson Charles Reagan