Growing Roots in Rocky Soil: An Environmental History of Southern Rock

Despite Walden's reservations, the term caught on and has been used since the 1970s to describe a diverse array of rock 'n' roll groups from the South that blend country and blues musical forms with a jam-band performance style.1 Recently, historians have joined the debate, deconstruc...

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Published in:	Southern cultures 2010-09, Vol.16 (3), p.102-128
Main Author:	Elmore, Bartow J.
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Allman Brothers Band Allman, Duane Allman, Gregg Beliefs, opinions and attitudes Brothers Cities Civil rights Commercial music Company business management Country music Cultural identity Environmental history ESSAY folk literature folk poetry folk song History and criticism landscape Landscapes Lynyrd Skynyrd Lynyrd Skynyrd (Musical group) Management Music Music and society Music criticism Musical aesthetics Musical bands Musical performances Musicians & conductors rock and roll music rock and roll song Rock music Rock singers Social aspects Southern rock music Southern States Southern United States United States
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Summary:	Despite Walden's reservations, the term caught on and has been used since the 1970s to describe a diverse array of rock 'n' roll groups from the South that blend country and blues musical forms with a jam-band performance style.1 Recently, historians have joined the debate, deconstructing southern rock to uncover its basic elements-what music journalist Mark Kemp calls "an otherworldly musical stew" of country, blues, jazz, and gospel-and explain its implications for southern (if not American) culture. According to Ownby, southern rockers' rejected "the security and morality" of the nineteenth-century southern homestead, even as they praised aspects of the patriarchal culture that pervaded it.3 Barbara Ching expanded Ownby's thesis in her comparative study of the Eagles and Lynyrd Skynyrd, positing that southern rockers engaged in a "struggle over the role and meaning of white southern manhood."
ISSN:	1068-8218 1534-1488 1534-1488