The South Country

Author: Edward Thomas
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473395909
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

Book Description
This early work by Edward Thomas was originally published in 1909 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The South Country' is one of Thomas's works on the subject of nature. Philip Edward Thomas was born in Lambeth, London, England in 1878. His parents were Welsh migrants, and Thomas attended several schools, before ending up at St. Pauls. Thomas led a reclusive early life, and began writing as a teenager. He published his first book, The Woodland Life (1897), at the age of just nineteen. A year later, he won a history scholarship to Lincoln College, Oxford. Despite being less well-known than other World War I poets, Thomas is regarded by many critics as one of the finest.

The South Country

Author: Edward Thomas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368374192
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
Reproduction of the original.

Slave Country

Author: Adam Rothman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674016743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South.

Country Soul

Author: Charles L. Hughes
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469622440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 277

Book Description
In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of country and soul. Yet the music emerged from the same songwriters, musicians, and producers in the recording studios of Memphis and Nashville, Tennessee, and Muscle Shoals, Alabama--what Charles L. Hughes calls the "country-soul triangle." In legendary studios like Stax and FAME, integrated groups of musicians like Booker T. and the MGs and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section produced music that both challenged and reconfirmed racial divisions in the United States. Working with artists from Aretha Franklin to Willie Nelson, these musicians became crucial contributors to the era's popular music and internationally recognized symbols of American racial politics in the turbulent years of civil rights protests, Black Power, and white backlash. Hughes offers a provocative reinterpretation of this key moment in American popular music and challenges the conventional wisdom about the racial politics of southern studios and the music that emerged from them. Drawing on interviews and rarely used archives, Hughes brings to life the daily world of session musicians, producers, and songwriters at the heart of the country and soul scenes. In doing so, he shows how the country-soul triangle gave birth to new ways of thinking about music, race, labor, and the South in this pivotal period.

Sean of the South

Author: Sean Dietrich
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781515019183
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The first volume of a collection of short stories by Sean Dietrich, a writer, humorist, and novelist, known for his commentary on life in the American South. His humor and short fiction appear in various publications throughout the Southeast.

Mary Emmerling's American Country South

Author: Mary Ellisor Emmerling
Publisher: Clarkson Potter Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 296

Book Description
Mary Emmerling knows American Country. In this record of her journey along the byways and back roads of the South, she presents the romance, plain-speaking ways, and legendary hospitality of Dixie. More than 400 full-color photographs.

Country Fried Soul

Author: Tamara Palmer
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780879308575
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Offers an overview of "Dirty South" rap--a phenomenon centered around cities such as Atlanta, Miami, and New Orleans--covering such groups as The Neptunes, Timbaland, OutKast, Lil Jon, Ludacris, and Cee-Lo.

The The South Country: Journeys in Calabria

Author: Edward Mallia
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788830625891
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 572

Book Description

South Carolina Country Roads: Of Train Depots, Filling Stations & Other Vanishing Charms

Author: Tom Poland
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 146713886X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Venture off the beaten path down forgotten roads and discover where a hidden South Carolina exists. Time-travel and dead-end at a ferry that leads to wild islands. Cross a rusting steel truss bridge into a scene from the 1930s. Behold an old gristmill and imagine its creaking, clashing gears grinding corn. See an old gas pump wreathed in honeysuckle. Drive through a ghost town and wonder why it died. When's the last time you saw a country store's cured hams hanging from wires? How about a vintage Bull Durham tobacco ad on old brick? Author Tom Poland explores scenic back roads that lead to heirloom tomatoes, poke salad, restaurants that were once gas stations, overgrown ruins and other soulful relics.

They Love a Man in the Country

Author: Billy Bowles
Publisher: Peachtree Junior
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
They Love a Man in the Country is a piquant chronicle of politics in the South in the days when a politician had to entertain to be elected. Seasoned journalists Billy Bowles and Remer Tyson interviewed the powerful and the obscure: state leaders in the Deep South and feuding, trigger-happy bootleggers in the Cumberland Gap. While many figures are familiar beyond their consituency -- George Wallace, Orval Faubus, Happy Chandler -- the authors have included others less widely known whose recollections and anecdotes are equally entertaining. What emerges from these interviews is the sense of an era in which any ruse could be used to grease the cogs of power as long as it worked. Part social history, part political closeup of many of the South's most outrageous figures, They Love a Man in the Country takes us from the populist '30s through the civil rights struggles of the '60s and '70s. Bowles and Tyson have embraced the comedy and poignancy of their material in this rich distillation of Southern life.