{"product_id":"tacky-south","title":"Tacky South","description":"\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","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57258311057752,"sku":"9780807177891","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tacky-south","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}