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Carrie Tipton: From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football

September 9, 2023 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT

The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football has forged a powerful, quasi-religious sense of meaning and identity throughout the region. Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, author Carrie Tipton places this popular repertory within the broader commercial music industry and uses fight songs to explore themes of authorship and copyright; the commodification of school spirit; and the construction of race, gender, and regional identity in Southern football culture.

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Date:
September 9, 2023
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10:30 am - 12:00 pm CDT
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https://tnmuseum.org/tnwriterstnstories