| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 383 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series |
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture |
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New encyclopedia of Southern culture.
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| Note |
"Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press." |
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"Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Leisure, sports, and all sorts of recreation -- All-day singings -- Amusement and theme parks -- Baseball -- Basketball -- Beaches -- Beaches, black, Jim Crow era -- Blood sports -- Boxing -- Buck dancing, flatfooting, and clogging --Card parties -- Cheerleading and twirling -- Children's games, traditional -- Civil War reenactments -- Cockfighting -- Debutantes -- Drinking -- Fairs -- Family reunions -- Festivals -- Festivals, music -- Fiddle contests -- Field trials -- Fireballing -- Fishing -- Football, college -- Football, high school -- Football, professional -- Football traditions -- Fox hunting -- Gambling -- Gardening -- Golf -- Holidays -- Horses -- House parties -- Hunting -- Juke joints and honky-tonks -- Line dancing -- Marching bands -- Marching bands, HBCU -- Mardi Gras -- Noodling -- Passing the time -- Pets -- Picking sessions -- Pool checkers -- Porch sitting -- Quail hunting -- Quinceañeras -- Rafting and canoeing -- Resorts -- Restaurants -- Ring shouts -- Ring tournaments -- Rock climbing -- Rodeo -- Running -- Shopping -- Soccer -- Square dancing -- Stepping -- Stock car racing -- Storytelling -- Tennis -- Tourism -- Tourism, automobile -- Tourism, culinary -- Tourism, cultural -- Traveling shows -- Two stepping -- Visiting -- Water skiing -- Whittling -- Wrestling. |
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Hank Aaron -- Muhammad Ali -- Annual interstate mullet toss -- Appalachian Trail -- Arthur Ashe -- Leah Marie Rawls Atkins -- Atlantic Beach, South Carolina -- Big Bend National Park -- Blue Ridge Parkway -- Bobby Bowden -- Paul "Bear" Bryant -- Busch Gardens -- Everett Case -- Casinos, Mississippi -- Christmas -- Ty Cobb -- Colonial Williamsburg -- Daytona 500 -- "Dizzy" Dean -- Disney World -- Dogpatch USA -- Dollywood -- Drive-in theaters -- Dale Earnhardt -- Easter -- Everglades National Park -- Chris Evert -- Brett Favre -- Flora-Bama Lounge and Package -- Fourth of July -- Althea Gibson -- Gilley's -- Graceland -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Mia Hamm -- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina -- Hooters -- Hot Springs National Park -- Junior Johnson -- Bobby Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Jubilees -- Juneteenth -- Kentucky Derby -- Lambert's Café -- Louisiana State Lottery Company -- Mammoth Cave National Park -- Manning family -- Peter Maravich -- Mid-south wrestling -- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina -- NASCAR -- Negro baseball leagues -- Satchel Paige -- Richard Petty -- Prison rodeos -- Redneck Riviera -- Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail -- Eddie Robinson -- Adolph Frederick Rupp -- St. Cecilia Ball -- Seaside, Florida -- "See Rock City" -- Showboats -- Silver Dollary City -- Dean Smith -- South by Southwest -- South of the Border -- Spoleto Festival USA -- Ken "Kenny" Michael Stabler (aka "Snake") -- Pat Summitt -- Talladega Superspeedway -- Texas Western vs. Kentucky -- Toasts and dozens -- Herschel Walker -- Womanless weddings -- Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary |
New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 16: Sports and Recreation. |
| Subject |
Sports -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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Recreation -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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Southern States -- Social life and customs -- Encyclopedias.
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Leisure -- Social aspects -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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Popular culture -- Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Leisure -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00996044
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Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
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Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
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Recreation. (OCoLC)fst01091713
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Sports. (OCoLC)fst01130432
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Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
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HISTORY / General.
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Southern States -- Civilization -- Encyclopedias.
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Southern States -- Encyclopedias.
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| Genre/Form |
Encyclopedias. (OCoLC)fst01423798
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Jackson, Harvey H.
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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
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| Added Title |
Sports and recreation |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sports and recreation 9780807834411 (DLC) 2010655074 (OCoLC)607975647 |
| ISBN |
9781469616773 (electronic bk.) |
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1469616777 (electronic bk.) |
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