- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (406 pages) : illustrations.
- Series Statement
- The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 16
- Uniform Title
- Sports and recreation (Online)
- New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 16.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Published with the assistance of the Anniversary Endowment Fund of the University of North Carolina Press."
- "Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2013).
- Contents
- Leisure, sports, and all sorts of recreation -- All-day singings -- Amusement and theme parks -- Baseball -- Basketball -- Beaches -- Beaches, black, Jim Crow era -- Blood sports -- Boxing -- Buck dancing, flatfooting, and clogging --Card parties -- Cheerleading and twirling -- Children's games, traditional -- Civil War reenactments -- Cockfighting -- Debutantes -- Drinking -- Fairs -- Family reunions -- Festivals -- Festivals, music -- Fiddle contests -- Field trials -- Fireballing -- Fishing -- Football, college -- Football, high school -- Football, professional -- Football traditions -- Fox hunting -- Gambling -- Gardening -- Golf -- Holidays -- Horses -- House parties -- Hunting -- Juke joints and honky-tonks -- Line dancing -- Marching bands -- Marching bands, HBCU -- Mardi Gras -- Noodling -- Passing the time -- Pets -- Picking sessions -- Pool checkers -- Porch sitting -- Quail hunting -- Quinceañeras -- Rafting and canoeing -- Resorts -- Restaurants -- Ring shouts -- Ring tournaments -- Rock climbing -- Rodeo -- Running -- Shopping -- Soccer -- Square dancing -- Stepping -- Stock car racing -- Storytelling -- Tennis -- Tourism -- Tourism, automobile -- Tourism, culinary -- Tourism, cultural -- Traveling shows -- Two stepping -- Visiting -- Water skiing -- Whittling -- Wrestling -- Hank Aaron -- Muhammad Ali -- Annual interstate mullet toss -- Appalachian Trail -- Arthur Ashe -- Leah Marie Rawls Atkins -- Atlantic Beach, South Carolina -- Big Bend National Park -- Blue Ridge Parkway -- Bobby Bowden -- Paul "Bear" Bryant -- Busch Gardens -- Everett Case -- Casinos, Mississippi -- Christmas -- Ty Cobb -- Colonial Williamsburg -- Daytona 500 -- "Dizzy" Dean -- Disney World -- Dogpatch USA -- Dollywood -- Drive-in theaters -- Dale Earnhardt -- Easter -- Everglades National Park -- Chris Evert -- Brett Favre -- Flora-Bama Lounge and Package -- Fourth of July -- Althea Gibson -- Gilley's -- Graceland -- Great Smoky Mountains National Park -- Mia Hamm -- Hilton Head Island, South Carolina -- Hooters -- Hot Springs National Park -- Junior Johnson -- Bobby Jones -- Michael Jordan -- Jubilees -- Juneteenth -- Kentucky Derby -- Lambert's Café -- Louisiana State Lottery Company -- Mammoth Cave National Park -- Manning family -- Peter Maravich -- Mid-south wrestling -- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina -- NASCAR -- Negro baseball leagues -- Satchel Paige -- Richard Petty -- Prison rodeos -- Redneck Riviera -- Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail -- Eddie Robinson -- Adolph Frederick Rupp -- St. Cecilia Ball -- Seaside, Florida -- "See Rock City" -- Showboats -- Silver Dollary City -- Dean Smith -- South by Southwest -- South of the Border -- Spoleto Festival USA -- Ken "Kenny" Michael Stabler (aka "Snake") -- Pat Summitt -- Talladega Superspeedway -- Texas Western vs. Kentucky -- Toasts and dozens -- Herschel Walker -- Womanless weddings -- Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias.
- OCLC
- ssib021836943
- Title
Sports and recreation [electronic resource] / Harvey H. Jackson III, volume editor.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
- Series
The new encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 16
New encyclopedia of Southern culture ; v. 16.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Jackson, Harvey H.
University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.