Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Guide_to_State/decaro.html. This is an online reprint of F. A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," in Louisiana...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...vision of Louisiana in the documentary classic Louisiana Story. The making of that Louisiana story follows Flaherty's standard format. He created "narrative documentaries," what we might call today "docudramas." But...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...a Librarian" feature, the Florida Electronic Library contains two principal divsions: Florida Memory and Florida on Florida. Florida on Florida Florida on Florida is "a comprehensive digital collection of Florida's...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...in 1845 Florida became the twenty-seventh US state. Thus, there has been a Spanish presence since the "discovery" of Florida by Europeans. In these discourses, however, Florida is constructed as...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
Introduction Recording of "Coronation" #63 sung by Hoboken Sacred Harp Singers, led by Silas Lee, Florida Folk Festival. Courtesy of Florida Folklife Collection, State Library of Florida, May 4, 1958. Music...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...peonage trials, see Daniel, The Shadow of Slavery. On Quackenbos, see Jerrell H. Shofner, "Mary Grace Quackenbos, a Visitor Florida Did Not Want," Florida Historical Quarterly 58, no. 3 (January...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...to Louisiana in 1972 to teach at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, east of Baton Rouge and about sixty miles northwest of New Orleans. He brought with him his new...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...New History of Florida (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996). Fortified on Matanzas Bay by the stalwart Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine withstood centuries of conflict between Spanish, British,...
Cajun South Louisiana
...in creating pageants that featured Acadian history as the defining experience of south Louisiana. This south Louisiana celebration of its heritage privileged the Acadian exile to south Louisiana as the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...a genre called Louisiana apocalyptic noir.3Each Louisiana-based HBO depiction offers smart and problematic depictions. Treme, particularly, lovingly (and perhaps cruelly) recreates the immediate years after Katrina, from drooping ceiling fans...