Southern Accents is the sixth studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers , released on March 26, 1985, through MCA Records . The album's lead single , " Don't Come Around Here No More ", co-written by Dave Stewart of Eurythmics , peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 . The song "Southern Accents" was later covered by Johnny Cash for his Unchained album in 1996.
21-604: The heartland , when referring to a cultural region of the United States , is the central land area of the country, usually the Midwestern United States or the states that do not border the Atlantic or Pacific oceans, associated with mainstream or traditional values , such as economic self-sufficiency , conservative political and religious ideals, and rootedness in agrarian life. The US Census Bureau defines
42-445: A New Field . The album would prove to be the last album to have any involvement of bassist Ron Blair until 2002. In a three-out-of-five star retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic commented that while "occasionally, the songs work" and " Don't Come Around Here No More " and " Make It Better (Forget About Me) " expand [the band's] sound nicely", the record was too often "weighed down by its own ambitions". In
63-505: A concept album, the theme of Southern Accents became somewhat murky with the inclusion of three songs co-written by Stewart, and several others originally planned for the album left off. Songs cut from the track list include "Trailer", "Crackin' Up" (a Nick Lowe cover), " Big Boss Man " (a Jimmy Reed cover), "The Image of Me" (a Conway Twitty cover), "Walkin' from the Fire", and "The Apartment Song". The first two were released as B-sides, while
84-604: A continental scale are also referred to as "worlds", "spheres", or "civilizations", such as the Islamic world . The term cultural bloc is used by anthropologists to describe culturally and linguistically similar groups (or nations) of Aboriginal peoples of Australia . It may have been coined first by Ronald Berndt in 1959 to describe the Western Desert cultural bloc , a group of peoples in central Australia whose languages comprise around 40 dialects. Other groups described as
105-653: A cultural bloc include the Noongar people of south-western Australia; the Bundjalung people of northern New South Wales and southern Queensland ; the Kuninjku / Bininj Kunwok bloc and the Yolngu cultural bloc in Arnhem Land , Northern Territory . A music area is a cultural area defined according to musical activity. It may or may not conflict with the cultural areas assigned to
126-403: A geographic region and time sequence ( age area ) is characterized by shared elements of environment and culture. A precursor to the concept of culture areas originated with museum curators and ethnologists during the late 1800s as means of arranging exhibits, combined with the work of taxonomy . The American anthropologists Clark Wissler and Alfred Kroeber further developed this version of
147-407: A geography with one relatively homogeneous human activity or complex of activities ( culture ). Such activities are often associated with an ethnolinguistic group and with the territory it inhabits. Specific cultures often do not limit their geographic coverage to the borders of a nation state , or to smaller subdivisions of a state. A culture area is a concept in cultural anthropology in which
168-412: A given region. The world may be divided into three large music areas, each containing a "cultivated" or classical musics "that are obviously its most complex musical forms", with, nearby, folk styles which interact with the cultivated, and, on the perimeter, primitive styles. [REDACTED] Media related to Cultural regions at Wikimedia Commons Southern Accents Originally conceived as
189-707: Is a significant part of a society's culture, but it can also divide subgroups of the same ethnolinguistic group along more subtle criteria, such as the Brünig-Napf-Reuss line in German-speaking Switzerland, the Weißwurstäquator in Germany, or the Grote rivieren boundary between Dutch and Flemish culture. In the history of Europe , the major cultural boundaries are traditionally found: Macro-cultures on
210-618: Is near Lebanon, Kansas . When Alaska and Hawaii were admitted to the Union in 1959, the geographic center of the United States moved from Smith County, Kansas to Butte County, South Dakota . The largest city by population in the American heartland is Chicago, Illinois with a metro area nearing ten million people, and it ranks third overall, after New York City and Los Angeles , respectively. The British geographer Halford Mackinder coined
231-484: Is no consensus regarding the geographical boundaries of America's heartland. However, the American Midwest is the most commonly cited area as being the nation's heartland, although many other places have been referred to as part of it, often extending to rural or farming regions in the great plains. At least as early as 2010, the term Heartland has been used to refer to many so-called " red states ", including those in
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#1732858109493252-584: Is not necessarily Midwestern, as Springsteen was born in New Jersey , and Petty was born in Florida and has sung about the Southern United States, such as in his album Southern Accents . Modern artists of heartland rock include The Killers and The War on Drugs . Cultural area In anthropology and geography , a cultural area , cultural region , cultural sphere , or culture area refers to
273-506: Is now known as the " cultural turn ." The definition of culture areas is enjoying a resurgence of practical and theoretical interest as social scientists conduct more research on processes of cultural globalization. Allen Noble gave a summary of the concept development of cultural regions using terms such as: Cultural "spheres of influence" may also overlap or form concentric structures of macrocultures encompassing smaller local cultures. Different boundaries may also be drawn depending on
294-477: Is primarily associated with Carl O. Sauer and his colleagues. Sauer viewed culture as "an agent within a natural area that was a medium to be cultivated to produce the cultural landscape." Sauer's concept was later criticized as deterministic , and geographer Yi-Fu Tuan and others proposed versions that enabled scholars to account for phenomenological experience as well. This revision became known as humanistic geography. The period within which humanistic geography
315-749: The Bible belt . According to the United States Census Bureau , the mean center of population in the US in 2010 was in or around Texas County, Missouri . In 2000 it had been northeast from there, in Phelps County, Missouri . It is projected for the mean center of population to leave the Midwest and enter the Western United States by the mid-21st century. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states
336-570: The Midwest as consisting of 12 states: Illinois , Indiana , Iowa , Kansas , Michigan , Minnesota , Missouri , Nebraska , North Dakota , Ohio , South Dakota , and Wisconsin . Portions of other non-coastal states can be included in the region as well. These may include eastern portions of the Mountain States ( Colorado , Utah , Idaho , Montana , and Wyoming ) and northern portions of some Southern states, such as Arkansas , Kentucky , Oklahoma , Tennessee , and West Virginia . There
357-471: The concept on the premise that cultural areas represent longstanding cultural divisions. This iteration of the concept is sometimes criticized as arbitrary, but the organization of human communities into cultural areas remains a common practice throughout the social sciences . Cultural geography also utilizes the concept of culture areas. Cultural geography originated within the Berkeley School, and
378-411: The particular aspect of interest, such as religion and folklore vs dress, or architecture vs language. Another version of cultural area typology divides cultural areas into three forms: A cultural boundary (also cultural border) in ethnology is a geographical boundary between two identifiable ethnic or ethnolinguistic cultures. A language border is necessarily also a cultural border, as language
399-491: The posthumous box set An American Treasure in 2018. The song "My Life/Your World" from Let Me Up (I've Had Enough) included several of the song's lyrics rewritten. While mixing the album's opening track, "Rebels", Petty became frustrated and punched a wall, severely breaking his left hand. Subsequent surgery on his hand left him with several pins, wires and screws holding his hand together. The album cover features an 1865 painting by Winslow Homer titled The Veteran in
420-508: The two remaining covers (and a demo version of "The Apartment Song") were later released on the Playback box set. A studio version of "The Apartment Song" appeared on Petty's first solo album, Full Moon Fever , released in 1989. "Trailer" was later re-recorded and released in May 2016 by Petty's other band Mudcrutch , on its second studio album, 2 . "Walkin' from the Fire" was eventually released on
441-569: The word in 1904 to refer to the heart of the Eurasian land mass: a strategic center of industry, natural resources and power. The use of the term "heartland" to apply to the American Midwest did not become common until later in the 20th century. Heartland rock musicians such as Bruce Springsteen (New Jersey), Bob Seger (Michigan), Melissa Etheridge (Kansas), John Mellencamp (Indiana), and Tom Petty have sung about heartland values. Heartland rock albums include Springsteen's Nebraska . The genre
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