Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk CultureGrounded in Charles Joyner's unique blend of rigorous scholarship and genuine curiosity, these thoughtful and incisive essays by the eminent southern historian and folklorist explore the South's extraordinary amalgam of cultural traditions. By examining the mutual influence of history and folk culture, Shared Traditions reveals the essence of southern culture in the complex and dynamic interactions of descendants of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans. The book covers a broad spectrum of southern folk groups, folklore expressions, and major themes of southern history, including antebellum society, slavery, the coming of the Civil War, economic modernization in the Appalachians and the Sea Islands, immigration, the civil rights movement, and the effects of cultural tourism. Joyner addresses the convergence of African and European elements in the Old South and explores how specific environmental and demographic features shaped the acculturation process. He discusses divergent practices in worship services, funeral and burial services, and other religious ceremonies. He examines links between speech patterns and cultural patterns, the influence of Irish folk culture in the American South, and the southern Jewish experience. He also investigates points of intersection between history and legend and relations between the new social history and folklore. Ranging from rites of power and resistance on the slave plantation to the creolization of language to the musical brew of blues, country, jazz, and rock, Shared Traditions reveals the distinctive culture born of a sharing by black and white southerners of their deep-rooted and diverse traditions. |
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... called the " variegated fabric " of southern folk society , with a small plantation aristocracy , middle - class business people and yeoman farmers , free persons of color , and black slaves . In the South , beginning in the seventeenth ...
... called the " variegated fabric " of southern folk society , with a small plantation aristocracy , middle - class business people and yeoman farmers , free persons of color , and black slaves . In the South , beginning in the seventeenth ...
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... called “ plain folk , " " poor whites , " " common whites , " " crackers , " and other derogato- ry names . Few southerners could live the life of a privileged planter.9 Scholars have found it difficult even to define this majority ...
... called “ plain folk , " " poor whites , " " common whites , " " crackers , " and other derogato- ry names . Few southerners could live the life of a privileged planter.9 Scholars have found it difficult even to define this majority ...
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Contents
Southern Folk Culture Unity in Diversity | 11 |
The Old South | 27 |
Let Us Break Bread Together Cultural Interaction in the Old South | 29 |
In His Hands The World of the Plantation Slaves | 41 |
History as Ritual Rites of Power and Resistance on the Slave Plantation | 93 |
Guilty of Holiest Crime The Passion of John Brown | 103 |
Three Historiographical Forays | 139 |
The South as a Folk Culture David Potter and the Southern Enigma | 141 |
The Sounds of Southern Culture Blues Country Jazz and Rock | 193 |
Sweet Music Tradition Creativity and the Appalachian Dulcimer | 208 |
Sea Island Legacy Folk Tradition and the Civil Rights Movement | 228 |
Folklore and History A Dialogue | 241 |
Alice of the Hermitage A Study in Legend Belief and History | 243 |
A Model for the Analysis of Folklore Performance in Historical Context | 254 |
Folklore and Social Transformation Historians and Folklorists in the Modern World | 262 |
The Future of Folk Culture | 273 |
The Bold Fischer Man David Hackett Fischer and the British Sources of American Folk Culture | 151 |
The Narrowing Gyre Henry Glassie Irish Folk Culture and the American South | 166 |
The New South | 175 |
A Community of Memory Assimilation and Identity among the Jews of Georgetown | 177 |
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