"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...scene. And yet New Orleans rap has remained, in important ways, marginal within the city's dominant culture: limited in venue bookings, performance opportunities, and insurance for events;6This is one of...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...on Moss Street bordering Bayou St. John, providing a microcosm of Faubourg St. John, a neighborhood recovering, but with gaps. Uptown The neighborhoods encompassed by the Uptown Planning District were...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...of Pylon made enough money to live cheaply in Athens, they weren't exactly comfortable. To reach the next level, they hired a professional booking agent. He landed them a gig...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...McGraw et al., The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...in varied downtown and uptown neighborhoods all testify to the primacy of non-institutional forces at work in the recovery. On All Saints Day 2005, a jazz funeral was held for...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
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 Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
The Shenandoah Valley
The Shenandoah Valley Edward Beyer, Digital Restoration of "Harper's Ferry from Jefferson Rock" from Album of Virginia: Illustrations of the Old Dominion, 1858. The Shenandoah Valley's history marks it as...