“No Damn Black Gown Sons of Bitches among Them”: Rough Music and the Counter-Pastoral in the Eighteenth-Century Carolina Backcountry
“Rough music,” according to English historian E. P. Thompson, included “raucous, ear-shattering noise, unpitying laughter, and the mimicking of obscenities.” These were sounds that the ruling class of the Carolina backcountry heard when confronted by their inferiors. This article examines the 18th c...
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Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)
2017-06-01
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/erea/5742 |
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