Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...other songs of abandonment in her repertoire. Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy Alberta Bradford and Becky Elzy, Avery Island, Louisiana, ca. 1933. Photo courtesy of E. A. McIlhenny Enterprises, Inc....
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Xavier Blk and Will Edmond, two of Atlanta's hottest DJs and party promoters, discussed their business philosophy and the "creative" benefits of living as a collective. Finally, hometown R&B singer, Donnie,...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...gospel is southern, and not all gospel of the US South is white.11Following Harry Eskew's lead in the Grove Music entry for Gospel Music, Stephen Shearon uses "northern urban" gospel...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) popularized with such amazing force. Even before her novel appeared serially, southern novels set on...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Elemore Morgan, Jr. Interview with Sarah Jackson and Pierre Cazaubon, Rob Rombout, 2006. This video is a portrait of Elemore Morgan Jr., widely acknowledged as the foremost contemporary Louisiana landscape...
The Shenandoah Valley
...human presence in the region over 10,000 years ago, the Valley was a central corridor for travel, migration, hunting, and planting. The Valley was the homeland for no single tribe,...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...white working class—coded as male industrial workers. For months before and after the 2016 election, journalists reported on various Trump Countries, as they were dubbed—Appalachian communities supposedly serving as ground...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...animus that led a white supremacist to murder nine worshippers in Charleston's venerated Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on June 17, 2015. The counter-narrative chronicled in Denmark Vesey's Garden insists...