Tacky South

<p>As a way to comment on a person's style or taste the word tacky has distinctly southern origins with its roots tracing back to the so-called tackies who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. <i>The Tacky South</i> presents eighteen fun insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South ranging from nineteenth-century local color fiction and the television series <i>Murder She Wrote</i> to red velvet cake and the ubiquitous influence of Dolly Parton. Charting the gender race and class constructions at work in regional aesthetics <i>The Tacky South</i> explores what shifting notions of tackiness reveal about US culture as a whole and the role that region plays in addressing national and global issues of culture and identity.</p>