Heritage and hoop skirts : how Natchez created the Old South /

Heritage and hoop skirts : how Natchez created the Old South /

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Author / Creator:	Kapp, Paul Hardin, author.
Imprint:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Description:	532 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Natchez Garden Club. Pilgrimage Garden Club of Natchez. Natchez Garden Club. Heritage tourism -- Mississippi -- Natchez. Historic preservation -- Mississippi -- Natchez. Architecture, Domestic -- Mississippi -- Natchez. Préservation historique -- Mississippi -- Natchez. Architecture, Domestic. Buildings. Heritage tourism. Historic preservation. Manners and customs. Travel. Natchez (Miss.) -- History. Natchez (Miss.) -- Social life and customs. Natchez (Miss.) -- Description and travel. Natchez (Miss.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. Mississippi -- Natchez. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12771298

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ISBN:	9781496838780 1496838785 9781496838797 9781496838803 9781496838810 9781496838827
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"For over eighty years, tourists have flocked to Natchez, Mississippi, seeking the "Old South," but what they encounter is invention: a pageant and rewrite of history first concocted during the Great Depression. In Heritage and Hoop Skirts: How Natchez Created the Old South, author Paul Hardin Kapp reveals how the women of the Natchez Garden Club saved their city, created one of the first cultural tourism economies in the United States, changed the Mississippi landscape through historic preservation, and fashioned elements of the Lost Cause into an industry. Beginning with the first Natchez Spring Pilgrimage of Antebellum Homes in 1932, such women as Katherine Grafton Miller, Roane Fleming Byrnes, and Edith Wyatt Moore challenged the notion that smokestack industries were key to Natchez's prosperity. These women developed a narrative of graceful living and aristocratic gentlepeople centered on grand but decaying mansions. In crafting this pageantry, they created a tourism magnet based on the antebellum architecture of Natchez. Through their determination and political guile, they enlisted New Deal programs, such as the WPA Writers' Project and the Historic American Buildings Survey, to promote their version of the city. Their work did save numerous historic buildings and employed both white and African American workers during the Depression. Still, the transformation of Natchez into a tourist draw came at a racial cost and further marginalized African American Natchezians. By attending to the history of preservation in Natchez, Kapp draws on a rich archive of images, architectural documents, and popular culture to explore how meaning is assigned to place and how meaning evolves over time. In showing how and why the Natchez buildings of the "Old South" were first preserved, commercialized, and transformed into a brand, this volume makes a much-needed contribution to ongoing debates over the meaning attached to cultural patrimony"--
Other form:	Online version: Kapp, Paul Hardin. Heritage and hoop skirts Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022 9781496838797

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