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Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit
A look into deep communal meanings that emerge is small towns stage their annual festivals.
229 pages, ebook
First published February 1, 1997
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August 8, 2021
The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is I wanted to keep reading more! The author's writing style is so enjoyable, I've highlighted whole passages from this book just to be able to go back and find them again when I feel like it. He definitely knows how to turn a phrase!
I think it'd be easy with this subject matter to either play up the white trash factor and take a mocking tone or go the other way and wax lyrical about the purity of small town USA, but he does neither. Instead, this is a legitimately interesting look into a part of the US that I only really know from stereotypes otherwise.
Well worth reading even if just for the amazing breakdown of Gilligan's Island in one chapter!
I think it'd be easy with this subject matter to either play up the white trash factor and take a mocking tone or go the other way and wax lyrical about the purity of small town USA, but he does neither. Instead, this is a legitimately interesting look into a part of the US that I only really know from stereotypes otherwise.
Well worth reading even if just for the amazing breakdown of Gilligan's Island in one chapter!
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