Great Times Down South

Deep South Tourism Promotion in the Carter Era

Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani

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English

University of Georgia Press
15 April 2025

History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Popular culture; Tourism industry; Hospitality industry

Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South

Great Times Down South examines advertising materials from 1976 to 1981, including brochures, booklets, advertisements, and radio and TV spots, used by state tourism bureaus in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The chosen period, known as the Carter era, marked ""southern fashion"" and economic prosperity in the Sunbelt.

Analyzing the strategies, rhetoric, images, and themes employed by these tourism bureaus domestically and internationally offers a unique look into the prevailing conception of the South as marketed and perceived externally. A noticeable shift in the tourist image of the South occurred in the late 1970s, aligning with significant changes in southern culture and society. While the 1970s are acknowledged for altering the perception and symbolic role of the South in American culture, little research explores how these changes influenced the region's promotional image. Prevailing views extend the classic Old South imagery into the 1970s, but Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani contends that the roots of the current, elusive image of the South can be precisely traced in advertising materials designed to attract visitors during the 1970s.

By: Giuliano Santangeli Valenzani
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780820373324
ISBN 10: 082037332X
Series: Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 15 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

GUILIANO SANTANGELI VALENZANI has taught U.S. history at various Italian universities. He has published several articles in both English and Italian on the history of American tourism, including “La sfida sul ruolo del turismo negli Stati Uniti: lo scontro dimenticato dei turbolenti anni Settanta” in Acoma and “Advertising the Deep South in 2018: An Analysis of Destination Image through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia Travel Guides” in Ex-centric Souths.

Reviews for Great Times Down South: Deep South Tourism Promotion in the Carter Era

Great Times Down South is engaging, lively, intriguing in its arguments, and thorough in using some more or less unstudied sources. -- Ted Ownby * author of Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920 *