WIND TALK FOR WOODWINDS: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching Woodwind Instruments

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What patterns emerge in media coverage and character depiction of Southern men and women, blacks and whites, in the years between 1954 and 1976? How do portrayals of the region and the equal rights movement illuminate the spirit and experience of the South〞and of the nation as a whole? In
Allison Graham examines the ways in which the media, particularly television and film, presented Southerners during the period of the civil rights revolution.
Graham analyzes depictions of southern race and social class in a wide range of Hollywood films〞including
,
, and
from the 1950s; later films like
,
, and
; and MGM’s Elvis Presley vehicles. She traces how films have confronted〞or avoided〞issues of racism over the years, paralleling Hollywood depictions with the tamer characterization of the likeable “hillbilly” popularized in television’s
and
. Graham reinforces the political impact of these fictional representations by examining media coverage of civil rights demonstrations, including the documentary
, which reported the clash between Robert Kennedy and Governor George Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama. She concludes with a provocative analysis of
, identifying the popular film as a retelling of post-World War II Southern history.