Links:
Ask Vance
Memphis trivia blog companion to the monthly
Memphis Magazine print column
Ask Vance.
http://www.memphismagazine.com/askvanceblog/
Backroads of American Music
A site that explores juke joint culture and "overlooked" Memphis musicians.
http://www.backroadsofamericanmusic.com.
Veni Harlan, "
Signs of Baton Rouge."
An online photography exhibit about hand-painted commercial signage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
http://www.signsofbatonrouge.com/
Memphis Celebrates Soul
A blog about the "Soul" culture of music and food in Memphis, Tennessee.
http://memphissoul50.blogspot.com
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
This site features information about past, present, and future exhibitions of art and photography at the Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
http://www.brooksmuseum.org/
The Memphis Flyer
An online city newspaper featuring information about the Memphis community and culture.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/
2007 Memphis Flyer article about local muralist and sign painter James "Brick" Brigance who painted the Hawk's Bar & Grill
wall.
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid:37345
Memphis Sound
A blog run by Preston Lauterbach about the forgotten people and places that make up the "Memphis Sound."
http://www.memphissound.blogspot.com/
Mississippi River Corridor – Tennessee
The Mississippi River Corridor in Tennessee project works to conserve natural, cultural, and scenic resources in West Tennessee.
http://www.msrivertn.org/
Neighborhoods
in Memphis, Tennessee, Wikipedia entry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Neighborhoods_in_Memphis,_Tennessee
Stax Museum
The Stax Museum of American Soul Music, located at the original site of Stax Records, holds a collection of more than 2,000 interactive exhibits, films, artifacts, items of memorabilia, and galleries about Stax artists and the history of the recording studio.
http://staxmuseum.org/
Amie Vanderford, "
Project 366 - 2008."
http://www.amie.org/
William Eggleston's website
Eggleston is an influential color photographer from Memphis, Tennessee.
http://www.egglestontrust.com.
Joe York, "
With Signs Following...Religion on the Southern Roadside."
An online photography exhibit from the University of Mississippi.
http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/signs/page1.htm
Print Materials:
Branston, John.
Rowdy Memphis. Brentwood, Tennessee: Cold Tree Press,
2004.
Withers, Ernest.
Memphis Blues Again. Viking Studio, 2001.
Wright, Sharon D.
Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis.
Taylor and Francis, 2007.
Published: 7 July 2008
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