An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Music

Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South

Erich Nunn, Auburn University
26 March 2013
presentation

A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans

Holly Hobbs, Tulane University
20 November 2012
review

Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul

Scott L. Matthews, Georgia State University
13 November 2012
review

Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live

Matt Miller, Emory University
4 October 2012
review

Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records

Lance Ledbetter, Dust-to-Digital Records
30 April 2012
presentation

Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”

Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University
30 November 2011
article

Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond

Nick Spitzer, Tulane University
28 November 2011
article

The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
26 September 2011
article

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

Claudrena N. Harold, University of Virginia
12 July 2011
article

Review: The Makers of the Sacred Harp

Timothy Eriksen, Wesleyan University
23 June 2011
review

"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place

Bryant Simon, Temple University
28 March 2011
review

Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"

George King, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
2 December 2010
short video

Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing

Laurie Kay Sommers, Independent Scholar
17 August 2010
article

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
29 July 2010
review

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey, Emory University
25 June 2010
presentation

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Cameron B. LeBlanc, Emory University
22 December 2009
article

Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the U.S. South

Tom Zarrilli, Atlanta, GA
19 August 2009
photo essay

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

Rodney Jones, Southern Illinois University
22 January 2009
presentation

The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee

Bradley Hanson, Brown University
20 November 2008
article

Gold Records in Deep Space

Steve Bransford, Emory University
3 November 2008
article

Music in Cipriere, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2001

Randall Shexnayder, Photographer
15 October 2008
featured image

John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival

Scott L. Matthews, Hollins University
6 August 2008
article

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the U.S. South, 1997–2007

Matt Miller, Emory University
10 June 2008
article

The Blue Room, Greenwood, Mississippi, 2007

Erin Abbott, Photographer
15 January 2008
featured image

Deep Ellum Blues

Kevin Pask, Concordia University
30 October 2007
article

Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography

James B. Wallace, Emory University
4 June 2007
article

Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band

Keith Reynaud, New York, New York
20 December 2006
short video

Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future

Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
29 August 2006
presentation

Inside Poor Monkey's

Luther Brown, Delta State University
22 June 2006
article

Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre

Chuck Leavell, Twiggs County, Georgia
6 February 2006
presentation

Country Music Scholar

Bill Malone, Tulane University
20 January 2006
presentation

Musical Styles of the Southern Appalachians

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
15 April 2004
article

Music in Memphis

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
31 March 2004
article

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

Steve Bransford, Emory University
16 March 2004
article

Music of the Louisiana Gulf Coast

Allen Tullos (compiler), Emory University
26 February 2004
article

Love and Death at Second-Line

Nick Spitzer, University of New Orleans
20 February 2004
article