The Oral Tradition in the South
Waldo W. Braden
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The Oral Tradition in the South

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Over the years, the phrase ""southern oratory"" has become laden with myth; its mere invocation conjures up powerful images of grandiloquent antebellum patriarchs, enthusiastic New South hucksters, and raving wild-eyed demagogue politicians. In these essays, Waldo Braden strips away the myths to expose how the South's orators achieved their rhetorical effects and manipulated their audiences. The Oral Tradition in the South begins with two essays that trace the roots of the South's particular identification with oratory. In The Emergence of the Concept of Southern Oratory, 1850- 1950, Braden su...