Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...Pierce, Florida in 1937. Arthur Rothstein. Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002342-M5....
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. In North Carolina, the state Supreme Court rejected a request filed by several state organizations asking that recently re-elected Justice Paul Newby recuse...
Forgotten Locavores: Letters and Literature of Market Bulletins
Presentation Part 2: Engelhardt’s discussion of state market bulletins’ history, content, readership, circulation, and archival importance Part 3: Engelhardt overviews the correspondence among bulletin readers and Lawrence Part 4: Engelhardt asks questions such...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...and filmmaker Matt Miller uses the realities of Hurricane Katrina to orient his careful and detailed history of New Orleans rap and the intensely local native New Orleans rap style,...
Welcome!
...new cultural non-profit collecting 78rpm records, to the use of Confederate flags at Croatian soccer games, we will present short, scholarly posts about subjects that engage with southern spaces. Provide...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and long-lived singing traditions in the US South. First published in 1844 by Georgia compilers B.F. White and E.J. King, the book has been constantly used and occasionally revised. For...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...the boundaries between academic disciplines and between this scholarship and accounts written by collectors and music fans. He begins with the simple yet profound idea that people's aural worlds in...
Roadside Architecture
...roads. I've been looking all the while and on occasion perhaps even seeing. When I think I'm seeing, I stop to make pictures. I've photographed rural landscapes, courthouse squares, agricultural...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...Part 8: Spitzer closes by highlighting the movement between tradition and improvisation, features an interview with Michael White Part 9: Spitzer responds to questions following his presentation “Rebuilding New Orleans Culture and...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...county-level results of the presidential election between Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama scaled by population density. Illustrator Chris Howard designed another map which overlays county-by-county election results with...