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Memphis and the paradox of place : globalization in the American South / Wanda Rushing

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Rushing, Wanda
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
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1 online resource (viii, 259 pages).
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Contents
Globalization and the South : Memphis and the paradoxes of place -- Neither old South nor new South : Memphis and the paradoxes of identity -- Urban space & place : Memphis and the paradoxes of power -- Cotton fields, cargo planes, & biotechnology : Memphis and the paradoxes of development -- Globalization & popular culture : Memphis and the paradoxes of innovation -- Gender, race, ritual, & social power : Memphis and the paradoxes of tradition -- Place matters : continuity and discontinuity.
Summary
Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.B. King, Johnny Cash, and other musical legends got their starts. It is also a place of conflict and tragedy - the site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 assassination - and a city typically marginalised by scholars and underestimated by its own residents. Using this iconic southern city as a case study, this book explores the significance of place in a globalising age.
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ISBN
9780807895610 (electronic bk.)
080789561X (electronic bk.)
9781469605548 (electronic bk.)
1469605546 (electronic bk.)
9780807832998
0807832995
9780807859520
0807859524
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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