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The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon,
From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football has forged a powerful, quasi-religious sense of meaning and identity throughout the region.
Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, author Carrie Tipton places this popular repertory within the broader commercial music industry and uses fight songs to explore themes of authorship and copyright; the commodification of school spirit; and the construction of race, gender, and regional identity in Southern football culture.
This book unearths the history embedded in SEC football’s music traditions, drawing from the archives of the seventeen universities currently or formerly in the conference. Alongside rich primary sources, Tipton incorporates approaches and literature from sports history, Southern and American history, Southern and American studies, and musicology.
Chronicling iconic Southern fight songs’ origins, dissemination, meanings, and cultural reception over a turbulent century,
From Dixie to Rocky Top weaves a compelling narrative around a virtually unstudied body of popular music.
Innehållsförteckning
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: “Hideous with Unearthly Noises”: Early Football Sounds and Spaces
Chapter Two: Songs of the South: Football Music and the Lost Cause
Chapter Three: Who Wrote This? Authorship and Copyright in Two Early Fight Songs
Chapter Four: The Song That Changed Everything and the Man Who Published It: Thornton W. Allen and the “Washington and Lee Swing” (1910)
Chapter Five: Where Are All the Ladies At?
Chapter Six: Southern Fight Songs in the Jazz Age
Chapter Seven: The Business of College Songs in the 1930s
Chapter Eight: Make It Hot: Pushing for Pep in the 1930s
Chapter Nine: Huey Long’s Band Plays His Songs
Chapter Ten: Three Postwar Fight Songs
Chapter Eleven: What Fades and What Remains
Epilogue: Overtime
Appendix: College Songs Published, Written, or Copyrighted by Thornton W. Allen
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Om författaren
Carrie Tipton is a musicologist who writes, teaches, and lectures about US vernacular music.
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