Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...values closed many drive-ins.38Scott Henry, "Drive-in revival: Hipsters and boomers alike rediscover the joy of watching a movie outdoors." Creative Loafing [Atlanta, GA], 26 June 2002 [http://clatl.com/atlanta/drive-in-revival/Content?oid=1237455]. The Starlight Six...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...attracting both white and black Atlantans and influencing the repeal of Atlanta's 1885 prohibition law.15Goodson, 59–60. Atlanta entrepreneurs often blurred the line between entertainment and transportation in their financial endeavors....
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...market, participated in Atlantic trading, and maintained long-standing shipping practices with major urban centers in the Eastern United States. They responded to the changing market conditions even before the railroad...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...increasing number of Atlanta-based artists — including Ludacris, T.I., Bonecrusher, Gucci Man, and Young Jeezy — find national audiences, but the exposure of stylistic subgenres associated with Atlanta far outstripped...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...emblem, of North American fraternity.41"The Premature 'Possum," The Atlanta (GA) Constitution, Aug. 6, 1882, 4. A white brotherhood, binding the war-torn sections through the hunting and eating of opossums appealed...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...High School for the Sibley Commission's hearing on school desegregation, Atlanta, Georgia, March 23, 1960. Photograph by unknown creator. Originally published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Courtesy of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...into the state's Francophone musical traditions, with a portable recording device in tow, began an intermittent but deeply influential engagement with Cajun and Creole music across his long career. Indeed,...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...design—"fram[ing] the frame" that attempts to delimit Appalachia in each of these juxtaposed images. 21Butler, Frames, 9. It should come as no surprise that Looking at Appalachia traffics in some...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...Atlanta was voted number two in Fortune's 1995 'Best Cities for Business' list, the city also ranks number two in the nation in income disparity between blacks and whites, number...