From Dixie to Rocky Top: Music and Meaning in Southeastern Conference Football

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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.

Tracing the story of Southeastern Conference (SEC) fight songs from the late nineteenth to the early twenty—first century, author Carrie Tipton places thi...