The Southern Rock Opera Seminar
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THE SOUTHERN ROCK OPERA SEMINAR
Summer-Fall 2024
College of the
Crystal Kile, Librarian
This is a seminar exploring “the Southern thing.”
There is a laboratory option
The occasion of the Summer-Fall 2024 seminar is the Drive-by Truckers “Southern Rock Opera Revisited 2024” election year United States tour.
The tour commenced June 7, 2024, in Indianapolis, IN, and concludes November 24, 2024 in Nashville, TN.
Your source for all official tour info: https://drivebytruckers.com/
Why study Southern Rock Opera? Why now?
Y’all know why.
Topics include:
“The duality of The Southern Thing”
“Rebelling against the music of my high school parking lot”
“Why’s that drone looking through my window?”
Is it or is it not about the past?
Freebird
Rock show as myth
Rock show as ritual
Rock show as Southern Thing
The Good People of the post-Civil Rights South
Seeing you at the rock show
Southern white boys
That dead band’s song
USA 2001-
Reading List / Bibliography (Version 2.0)
Beatty, B. (2022). Play All Night! Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East. University of Florida Press. https://upf.com/book.asp?id=9780813069500 and
Carter, J. (1974, May 4). Law Day Address at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The American Presidency Project [Website]. Retrieved from https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/law-day-address-the-university-georgia-athens-georgia
Deusner, S. (2021). Where the Devil Don’t Stay: Traveling the South with The Drive-by Truckers. University of Texas Press. https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477318041/
Drive-by Truckers. (2001). The Southern Rock Opera [Album]. Soul Dump Records; Lost Highway Records. https://www.drivebytruckers.com/records-southernrockopera.html
Downing, A. (2021, September 10). Drive-By Truckers “Southern Rock Opera” 20th anniversary review. Stereogum. https://www.stereogum.com/2159953/drive-by-truckers-southern-rock-opera/reviews/the-anniversary/
Edgerton, J. (1995). Speak Now Against the Day: The generation before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9780807845578/speak-now-against-the-day/
Fertel, R. (2018). Drive-by Truckers Southern Rock Opera. 33 ⅓ [Series]. Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/driveby-truckers-southern-rock-opera-9781501331787/
Forbes, S. (Director). (2008). Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story [Film]. InterPositive Media. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1262863/
Fortier, J. and Willis, D. (2005-2021). Squidbillies [TV Show]. Awesome, Inc.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457146/
Guralnik, P. (2015). Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock and Roll. Little, Brown & Company. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/peter-guralnick/sam-phillips-the-man-who-invented-rock-n-roll/9780316341844/
Hale, G. E. (2020). Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture. University of North Carolina Press. https://uncpress.org/book/9781469664057/cool-town/
Hawkins, L. (2024). What Happened in Alabama [Podcast]. American Public Media. https://whathappenedinalabama.org
McWhorter, D. (2001). Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, the climactic battle of the civil rights movement. Simon and Schuster. https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Carry-Me-Home
Powers, A. (2018). Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music. Harper Collins. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/good-booty-ann-powers
Reali, C. M. (2022). Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals. University of Illinois Press. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=45zfd3qs9780252044519
Richardson, H. C. (2020). How The South Won The Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America. Oxford University Press. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Cox_Richardson
Scott, E. (1929). The Wave. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. https://archive.org/details/wave0000scot_s4o8
Steele, S. (2007). White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era. Harper Collins. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/white-guilt-shelby-steele
Stewart, A. L. (2022). Finster [Film]. Gravitas Ventures. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2527138/