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Don't Touch That Dial Carolina Radio Since the 1920s (review)

Don't Touch That Dial Carolina Radio Since the 1920s (review) Don't Touch That Dial Carolina Radio Since the 1920s (review) Lisa Yarger Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 96-99 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1999.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423834/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:00 GMT from JHU Libraries gives it almost mythic power. We see it both from the air (aboard Charlie's private Gulfstream- 5 ) and from the ground (people spend a lot of time in this book driv- ing). Both familiar and largely unknown parts of the city are vividly realized. Any- one who knows the place — and even Stuckey's cashiers go to conventions there — will see it with new eyes after reading Wolfe's descriptions of the palaz- zos, fitness centers, and trendy restaurants of Buckhead, the gleaming office tow- ers of Midtown, the southern-style slums of South Adanta, the Asian quarter of Chamblee ("Chambodia" ), even the seedy apartment complex of "Normandy Lea." The city's sodai landscape is also revealed in marvelous set-pieces: the black collegiate celebration of "Freaknik," a political rally at the Church of the Shelter- ing Arms, a reception at the Piedmont Driving Club, an Atlanta Symphony con- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Don't Touch That Dial Carolina Radio Since the 1920s (review)

Yarger, Lisa.
Southern Cultures , Volume 5 (2) – Jan 4, 2012
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Don't Touch That Dial Carolina Radio Since the 1920s (review) Lisa Yarger Southern Cultures, Volume 5, Number 2, Summer 1999, pp. 96-99 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1999.0012 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/423834/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:00 GMT from JHU Libraries gives it almost mythic power. We see it both from the air (aboard Charlie's private Gulfstream- 5 ) and from the ground (people spend a lot of time in this book driv- ing). Both familiar and largely unknown parts of the city are vividly realized. Any- one who knows the place — and even Stuckey's cashiers go to conventions there — will see it with new eyes after reading Wolfe's descriptions of the palaz- zos, fitness centers, and trendy restaurants of Buckhead, the gleaming office tow- ers of Midtown, the southern-style slums of South Adanta, the Asian quarter of Chamblee ("Chambodia" ), even the seedy apartment complex of "Normandy Lea." The city's sodai landscape is also revealed in marvelous set-pieces: the black collegiate celebration of "Freaknik," a political rally at the Church of the Shelter- ing Arms, a reception at the Piedmont Driving Club, an Atlanta Symphony con-

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