![]() Todd Jr., who also serves as president of the SEC Executive Committee. "I am proud of how the Southeastern Conference is taking a national leadership position in leveraging our outstanding athletic programs to showcase our academic all-stars that perform at a world-class level in SEC classrooms and laboratories every day," said UK President Lee T. 24, 2009) − The University of Kentucky joined with the 11 other Southeastern Conference institutions today in the launch of the SEC Academic Network, a Web site ( designed to promote academic endeavors of SEC universities that is being established by the SEC in partnership with ESPN and the member universities. Mentions of fight songs in college football scholarship tend toward the anecdotal and brief: quoting lyrics stating bare facts of a song’s composition describing a song’s affective power In contrast, this book treats SEC fight songs as a cohesive repertory, geographically and historically contingent, bound not by common musical style but by the political, social, and cultural investments of the white South from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries and situated within broader U.S. culture more broadly, they figure minimally in academic research. In the football-haunted South, these songs have become the hymns of a regional college football culture that scholar Eric Bain-Selbo describes as a religion, the soundtrack of a region that regards sports as “central” to its “modern…identity.” Despite the significance of college fight songs in southern culture, and U.S. Historically disseminated through the dominant channels of the music industry in any given era-sheet music, live performances, recordings, radio, television-fight songs have long moved beyond the boundaries of campus life. ![]() ![]() Stimeling, author of Nashville Cats: Record Production in Music Cityįight songs are the most potent and portable of these “shared emblems and experiences,” audible “signs and symbols” of college football culture. "Tipton has written a book that challenges accepted stories, complicates received wisdom, and situates an important repertoire within US popular culture of the last century or more." - Travis D. ![]() Cox, author of Dreaming of Dixie: How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture From Dixie to Rocky Top is also accessible and entertaining, so it surely will find an audience with the larger public, as well as a place in college classrooms." - Karen L. From minstrelsy to ragtime and beyond, music derived from popular culture connected people to one another and to the colleges and football teams she writes about. The book's significance is tied to the fact that Tipton takes popular music seriously. “Dixie,” for example, was both an expression of the Lost Cause and a bulwark to racial inclusivity. As she demonstrates, this genre of music was not always benign. Carrie Tipton’s examination of the evolution of the music sung and played at football games, and which became an integral part of college culture, is eye opening history. "From Dixie to Rocky Top is the book about Southeastern Conference football that you never knew you needed. Cox, co-director of The Sound of Victory: Music, Sport, and Society "Amid yet another conference realignment saga, Tipton offers a vibrant, timely reminder of how the SEC's boisterous fight songs and rally cries remain steeped in a regional specificity comprised of far more than the pageantry, precision, and patriarchy of Southern football culture." - Courtney M. ![]() Chronicling iconic Southern fight songs’ origins, dissemination, meanings, and cultural reception over a turbulent century, From Dixie to Rocky Top weaves a compelling narrative around a virtually unstudied body of popular music. Alongside rich primary sources, Tipton incorporates approaches and literature from sports history, Southern and American history, Southern and American studies, and musicology. This book unearths the history embedded in SEC football’s music traditions, drawing from the archives of the seventeen universities currently or formerly in the conference. Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century, author Carrie Tipton places this popular repertory within the broader commercial music industry and uses fight songs to explore themes of authorship and copyright the commodification of school spirit and the construction of race, gender, and regional identity in Southern football culture. The first book to explore the history of college fight songs as a culturally important phenomenon, From Dixie to Rocky Top zeroes in on the US South, where college football has forged a powerful, quasi-religious sense of meaning and identity throughout the region. ![]()
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