Christopher L. Stacey

Populism and Professional Wrestling in the Sunbelt South

From Rasslin' to Sports Entertainment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the history of professional wrestling in the South within the Trans-Mississippi Region between the 1950s-1990s and argues that the political, social, economic, and cultural forces of modernity in the Sunbelt South reflected a new form of southern and national populism that also embedded within the professional wrestling industry.

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Produktdetails

• Sport, Identity, and Culture
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781666951264
• ISBN-10: 1666951269
• Artikelnr.: 69114774

Autorenporträt

Christopher L. Stacey is professor of history at Louisiana State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Emergence of the Trans-Mississippi Region in the Sunbelt
South, 1933-1983
Chapter Two: Rasslin' with Race: Race and Political Culture in The Memphis
and Mid-South Territories, 1959-1992
Chapter Three: Populism and Kayfabe: Identity and Professional Wrestling in
Southern Political Culture in the 1970s and 80s
Chapter Four: Working, Shooting, Playing and Kayfabe: The Relationship
between Professional Wrestling and 'Legitimate' Sports in the
Trans-Mississippi Wrestling Region
Chapter Five: "I Couldn't Carry a Tune in a Bucket': Music in the
Trans-Mississippi Territories and the Transition from Rasslin' to Sports
Entertainment
Chapter Six: Life, Death, Violence and Kayfabe in the Trans-Mississippi
Region
Chapter Seven: The Hollywood Outside Agitator Vs. the King of Memphis: The
Jerry Lawler-Andy Kaufman Wrestling Feud and the Political and Cultural
Climate of the Post-Civil Rights South, 1981-82
Chapter Eight: The Death of Kayfabe: The Trans-Mississippi, the Rise of
Corporate Wrestling, and the disappearance of the Territories, 1982-1995
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author