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Article: The South and mass culture.(Essay)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2009
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IN READING THE SEMINAL WORK I'LL TAKE MY STAND: THE SOUTH AND the Agrarian Tradition, one may wonder what it has to do with mass culture, given the book's overall emphasis on "Agrarian versus Industrial" ways of life. And yet there is much in the essays of those twelve southerners that suggests that what concerned John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Andrew Nelson Lytle, Donald Davidson, and the other contributors in 1930 was that southern culture itself was under attack by industrialism writ large. Ransom complained of modern advertising, for example, as the "most significant development of our industrialism," and Davidson warned against "[t]he industrialists in art," ...
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