Download or read book Shagging in the Carolinas written by Fessa John Hook and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hook provides a history of dance, romance, and the New South in this volume. He tells the story of how Southern society's emerging middle class embraced its multicultural roots--nurturing the evolution of Shag and Beach Music--while its political leaders continued to debate and deny the outcome of the Civil War.