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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...ceremonies of a religious, spiritual, or secular nature included music, dance, and dramatic performances as well as sculptures and other visual art objects. In one sense, art was the expressive...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...musicians performed various "racialized sounds," songs and styles understood, often wrongly, as originating among either blacks or whites. In this way of thinking, minstrelsy and spirituals were black sounds, string...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...she's running against a younger, blacker version of her own husband."10Robert George on "News and Notes," National Public Radio, March 5, 2007. The spirit of the Bridge was shifting, away...