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An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America's most colorful region. From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock -- and to the voices that have shaped its extraordinary, distinctive literature. Interweaving interviews with people both ordinary and famous with thought-provoking reflections on Southern life, history, politics, humor, religion, and cultural icons, "The South" is a matchless, impressionistic portrait of a people and a place.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
An anecdotal, rollicking tour through America's most colorful region. From the Tidewater through Appalachia, down the Blue Ridge country and into the sunbelt, B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood take us through the American South, inviting us to listen to its music -- blues, country, gospel, and rock -- and to the voices that have shaped its extraordinary, distinctive literature. Interweaving interviews with people both ordinary and famous with thought-provoking reflections on Southern life, history, politics, humor, religion, and cultural icons, "The South" is a matchless, impressionistic portrait of a people and a place.
Autorenporträt
B.C. Hall and C.T. Wood are the coauthors of Big Muddy. Hall is also the author of a novel, The Burning Season, and Judgment Day, for which he received an Edgar Allan Poe Special Nonfiction Award. He teaches English and American Studies at Arkansas Tech University. Wood, an economist and consultant, lives and writes in Hot Springs, Arkansas.