ORCID ID

https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1229-6095

Date Awarded

2023

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (M.A.)

Department

History

Advisor

Carol Sheriff

Committee Member

Hiroshi Kitamura

Committee Member

Charles McGovern

Abstract

“I Wish I Was in Dixie / Away, Away”: American Emigration, Cultural Negotiations, and the ConfederadosThis paper focuses on the Confederados, Southern white Americans who emigrated to new countries, primarily to Brazil. This paper analyzes the reasons for this mass organized outmigration, with attention paid to both push and pull factors for the migrants. This paper also looks at the Civil War memorial activities perpetuated by the Confederados and their descendants, examining the negotiations between Southern U.S. and Brazilian culture. In addition, this paper argues that Confederado studies can be strengthened by further research from the framework of the United States in the world. “Play Free Bird!”: Southern Anthems as “New Dixies” and the Perpetuation of the Lost CauseThis paper examines classics of southern rock as “New Dixies,” symbolic of the modern American south just as the original “Dixie” was and has been. Ultimately, this paper argues that southern rock classics has a tendency to rely upon Confederate and Neo-Confederate iconography and ideology to promote regional and cultural pride within the sub-genre. This paper analyzes music by Southern bands and musicians such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Charlie Daniels Band, Hank Williams, Jr., as well as the Canadian-American band, The Band. This paper aims to fill in a historiographic gap, arguing that southern rock music should be analyzed as a means of both perpetuating southern memory and the myth of the Lost Cause, as well as a means of creating new memories.

DOI

https://dx.doi.org/10.21220/s2-fjhp-8n73

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