{"product_id":"9780807177341-the-tacky-south","title":"The Tacky South","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. \u003cem\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/em\u003e presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a way to comment on a person's style or taste, the word \"tacky\" has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called \"tackies\" who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. \u003ci\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/i\u003e presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South, ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series \u003ci\u003eMurder, She Wrote\u003c\/i\u003e to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender, race, and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics, \u003ci\u003eThe Tacky South\u003c\/i\u003e explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55424805503350,"sku":"9780807177341","price":70.67,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37783375.jpg?v=1763014369","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780807177341-the-tacky-south","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}