Book chapter
Leisure, Sports, and All Sorts of Recreation
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, pp.1-18
The University of North Carolina Press
02/01/2014
DOI: 10.5149/9781469616766_jackson.5
Abstract
C. Vann Woodward begins his American Counterpoint with a lengthy treatment of southern leisure. He points out that, like so many other myths about the South, this one tends to be “Janus-faced,” to present contrary aspects that change depending on the observer’s point of view. For some, southern leisure has been a gracious thing, involving careful attention to nonpecuniary values and activities in a world mad with materialistic frenzy. Others, looking at the reverse side, see the unattractive countenance, the Lazy South, the “Sahara of the Bozart,” with all its blemishes—“idleness, indolence, slothfulness, languor, lethargy, and dissipation.”
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Leisure, Sports, and All Sorts of Recreation
- Creators
- John Shelton ReedBenjamin K HunnicuttHarvey H Jackson III
- Contributors
- Harvey H Jackson (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, pp.1-18
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- DOI
- 10.5149/9781469616766_jackson.5
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/2014
- Academic Unit
- Health and Human Physiology
- Record Identifier
- 9984267142702771
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