Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: The Emergence of the Trans-Mississippi Region in the Sunbelt South, 1933-1983
Chapter Two: Rasslin’ with Race: Race and Political Culture in The Memphis and Mid-South Territories, 1959-1992
Chapter Three: Populism and Kayfabe: Identity and Professional Wrestling in Southern Political Culture in the 1970s and 80s
Chapter Four: Working, Shooting, Playing and Kayfabe: The Relationship between Professional Wrestling and ‘Legitimate’ Sports in the Trans-Mississippi Wrestling Region
Chapter Five: “I Couldn’t Carry a Tune in a Bucket’: Music in the Trans-Mississippi Territories and the Transition from Rasslin’ to Sports Entertainment
Chapter Six: Life, Death, Violence and Kayfabe in the Trans-Mississippi Region
Chapter Seven: The Hollywood Outside Agitator Vs. the King of Memphis: The Jerry Lawler—Andy Kaufman Wrestling Feud and the Political and Cultural Climate of the Post-Civil Rights South, 1981-82
Chapter Eight: The Death of Kayfabe: The Trans-Mississippi, the Rise of Corporate Wrestling, and the disappearance of the Territories, 1982-1995
Epilogue
Bibliography
About the Author