Creating and Consuming the American South

Contents List of Figures vii Preface: Understanding the South ix Introduction. Old/New/Post/Real/Global/No South: Paradigms and Scales 1 Martyn Bone Part I. Creating and Consuming the “Real” South 1. From Appalachian Folk to Southern Foodways: Why Americans Look to the South for Authentic Culture 27 W. Fitzhugh Brundage 2. God and the MoonPie: Consumption, Disenchantment, and the Reliably Lost Cause 49 Scott Romine 3. Toward a Post-postpolitical Southern Studies: On the Limits of the “Creating and Consuming” Paradigm 72 Jon Smith Part II. Creating and Consuming the South: Case Studies 4. Southern (Dis)Comfort: Creating and Consuming Homosex in the Black South 97 E. Patrick Johnson 5. Serpents in the Garden: Historic Preservation, Climate Change, and the Postsouthern Plantation 117 Michael P. Bibler 6. Creating and Consuming “Hill Country Harmonica”: Promoting the Blues and Forging Beloved Community in the Contemporary South 139 Adam Gussow 7. Pride at Preservation Hall: Tourism, Spectacle, and Musicking in New Orleans Jazz 158 Anne Dvinge 8. Recovering through a Cultural Economy: New Orleans from Katrina to Deepwater Horizon 178 Helen Taylor Part III. Creating and Consuming the South in Transnational Contexts 9. Creating a Multiethnic Gulf South: Vietnamese American Cultural and Economic Visibility before and after Katrina 203 Frank Cha 10. A “Southern, Brown, Burnt Sensibility”: Four Saints in Three Acts, Black Spain, and the (Global) Southern Pastoral 226 Paige A. McGinley 11. Southern Regionalism and U.S. Nationalism in William Faulkner’s State Department Travels 248 Deborah Cohn 12. The Feeling of a Heartless World: Blues Rhythm, Oppositionality, and British Rock Music 268 Andrew Warnes 13. Me and Mrs. Jones: Screening Working-Class Trans-Formations of Southern Family Values 289 John Howard Afterword: After Authenticity 309 Tara McPherson List of Contributors 325 Index 329