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Letters to the Editors: Britney's Ghost: More Fallout from Our Most Controversial Cover

Letters to the Editors: Britney's Ghost: More Fallout from Our Most Controversial Cover SC 9.1-Letters 2/6/03 11:02 AM Page 1      ........................................ Britney’s Ghost More Fallout from Our Most Controversial Cover It turns out that it would have been easier to quit the Mafia. We’re referring to our attempt to place a little time and distance between our current work and the now-infamous Winter 2002 cover photo of a bare-bellied Britney Spears. Not that we mind entirely, of course. But since the pop diva’s navel graced our pages—over a year ago—we’ve published essays and articles about re-fighting the Civil War, the songs of the South, Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough into baseball, southern religions, the Confederate Flag controversy, the Neshoba County Fair, Robert E. Lee’s inner battles, the Father of the Blues and the search for his soul, the investigation into a missing ghost ship’s crew, the dying art of deer-driving, and many, many other topics. And what do our readers have to say about all this? Well, not nearly as much as they have to say about Britney. If she’s on your minds, though, she’s on ours, too. Of course, occasionally we do receive other types of complaints. Leonard Wilson, for instance, takes us to task for the tenor http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Letters to the Editors: Britney's Ghost: More Fallout from Our Most Controversial Cover

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2003 Center for the Study of the American South.
ISSN
1534-1488

Abstract

SC 9.1-Letters 2/6/03 11:02 AM Page 1      ........................................ Britney’s Ghost More Fallout from Our Most Controversial Cover It turns out that it would have been easier to quit the Mafia. We’re referring to our attempt to place a little time and distance between our current work and the now-infamous Winter 2002 cover photo of a bare-bellied Britney Spears. Not that we mind entirely, of course. But since the pop diva’s navel graced our pages—over a year ago—we’ve published essays and articles about re-fighting the Civil War, the songs of the South, Jackie Robinson’s breakthrough into baseball, southern religions, the Confederate Flag controversy, the Neshoba County Fair, Robert E. Lee’s inner battles, the Father of the Blues and the search for his soul, the investigation into a missing ghost ship’s crew, the dying art of deer-driving, and many, many other topics. And what do our readers have to say about all this? Well, not nearly as much as they have to say about Britney. If she’s on your minds, though, she’s on ours, too. Of course, occasionally we do receive other types of complaints. Leonard Wilson, for instance, takes us to task for the tenor

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Mar 31, 2003

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