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

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: “Hideous with Unearthly Noises”: Early Football Sounds and Spaces
Chapter Two: Songs of the South: Football Music and the Lost Cause
Chapter Three: Who Wrote This? Authorship and Copyright in Two Early Fight Songs
Chapter Four: The Song That Changed Everything and the Man Who Published It: Thornton W. Allen and the “Washington and Lee Swing” (1910)
Chapter Five: Where Are All the Ladies At?
Chapter Six: Southern Fight Songs in the Jazz Age
Chapter Seven: The Business of College Songs in the 1930s
Chapter Eight: Make It Hot: Pushing for Pep in the 1930s
Chapter Nine: Huey Long’s Band Plays His Songs
Chapter Ten: Three Postwar Fight Songs
Chapter Eleven: What Fades and What Remains
Epilogue: Overtime
Appendix: College Songs Published, Written, or Copyrighted by Thornton W. Allen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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In an era in which collegiate monuments physical (the University of North Carolina's Silent Sam statue) and aural (the University of Texas's use of "Eyes on Texas") are being scrutinized on a national stage, From Dixie to Rocky Top explains how so much history became embedded in Southern football culture and reflects on how Southern universities reckon with their troubling icons, symbols, and songs.

The project took author Carrie Tipton deep into the archives of the seventeen universities currently or formerly in the Southeastern Conference. It also draws on historic newspapers, magazines, recordings, football programs, scrapbooks, photographs, and sheet music accessible in online databases and print sources. In interpreting the primary source data, the book draws on approaches and secondary literature from sports history, Southern and American history, Southern and American studies, and musicology.

From Dixie to Rocky Top traces and analyzes the history of SEC football fight songs over a turbulent century. The book chronicles iconic Southern fight songs’ origins, dissemination, meanings, and cultural reception, weaving a compelling narrative around a repertory virtually unexplored by scholars.

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