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Reinventing Dixie - Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South (Paperback)
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Reinventing Dixie - Tin Pan Alley's Songs and the Creation of the Mythic South (Paperback)
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Tin Pan Alley, once New York City's songwriting and recording
mecca, issued more than a thousand songs about the American South
in the first half of the twentieth century. In Reinventing Dixie,
John Bush Jones explores the broad impact of these songs in
creating and disseminating the imaginary view of the South as a
land of southern belles, gallant gentlemen, and racial harmony. In
profiles of Tin Pan Alley's lyricists and composers, Jones explains
how a group of undereducated and untraveled writers-the vast
majority of whom were urban northerners or European immigrants-
constructed the specific and detailed images of the South used in
their song lyrics. In the process of evaluating the origins of Tin
Pan Alley's songbook, Jones analyzes these songwriters' attitudes
about North-South reconciliation, ideals of honor and hospitality,
and the recurring theme of the yearning for home. Though a few of
the songs employed parody or satire to undercut the vision of a
peaceful, romantic South, the majority ignored the realities of
racism and poverty in the region. By the end of Tin Pan Alley's era
of cultural prominence in the mid-twentieth century, Jones contends
that the work of its writers had cemented the "moonlight and
magnolias" myth in the minds of millions of Americans. Reinventing
Dixie sheds light on the role of songwriters in forming an idyllic
vision of the South that continues to influence the American
imagination.
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