Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...spaces are commodified, exploited, and profaned. Closely appended to Loichot's unritual are the notions of "undead" and "unrest"; the liminal zone of (non)being they demarcate emphasizes the unritual's alienating, unsettling,...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...to capture 360-degree spatial audio via four interconnected microphone capsules. Using the video editing application Adobe Premiere, we connected the 360-degree video to the spatial audio. When the user shifts...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to purchase for $3 each. Morris gradually purchased approximately 500 negatives for the State Archives in Tallahassee. Burgert Brothers, Women making cigars at Corral & Wodiska cigar factory, Tampa, Florida....
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...of respect for him. And I'm glad Terrance Hayes and the editors at Pitt asked me to do it. Shepherd and Myth Solomon: I love your craft-based approach being one...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...in a mode promoting social justice and change for all LGBTQ+ people. My wrist might not be ‘stiff’ in the way my dad intended, but I think my artistic mission...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...clock in the rubble showing the time Katrina came ashore. Nothing in these color photographs indicates that the devastation had occurred a year earlier; the damage appears recent. Todd Bertolaet...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...the singing schools as crude. Musicians such as Lowell Mason (1792-1872) began an ardent campaign against the singing schools and the kind of music they promoted. Mason and the "better...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...