"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...York: Praeger, 1986), 35. To reduce the number of surplus laborers, government agencies helped employers recruit Puerto Ricans for low-paid jobs in New York City. The last period of migration,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Six's Teri Oldknow led to a three-day festival of bands, muscle cars, overnight camping, and B-movies. The successful Drive Invasion, held over Labor Day weekend, became an annual event, leading...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...topical ballads and crossover dance numbers such as "Little Liza Jane." While anglophone black string band and folk blues traditions have not thrived in south Louisiana, all evidence indicates that...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...would have the sing for three days straight. We would start on Friday after lunch, on Saturday at about church time which was 10 a.m., and on Sunday at the...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...days work bricklayers at $2.50, 2 days carpenters at $3.00 per day and 16 1/2 days work of laborers, at 1.25 per day" and "8 days stonecutters" at 2.00 per...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Orange Mound neighborhood, intersection of Airways Boulevard and Lamar Avenue, Memphis, TN, 2009. These numbers conflict with the stated goals of present-day development efforts to create a niche for Memphis...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...R., a twelve-year-old girl from the distant town of Jayuya, was brought to the dispensary completely emaciated after traveling on a hammock for five days. She died twelve days later...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Sundays, small weekly meetings are held. The fourth Sunday meeting is held the fourth weekend after Communion service. The meeting actually begins on Friday evening and continues through Saturday. The...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at 94 in 1982. During the 1980s, Houston endured the double impact of HIV/AIDS and the long economic fallout of the 1981 oil bust. The number of queer businesses began...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...singings today are held across the United States and beyond every weekend of the year. Yet we think the recordings of these three songs provide new virtual access to the...