Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...of the contemporary "Big Minutes," see Judy Caudle, et al., eds., "Minutes and Directory of Sacred Harp Singings," Fasola.org, http://fasola.org/minutes/. Projects such as the FaSoLa Minutes iOS and Android app...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...This allows coal companies quicker and cheaper access to millions of tons of coal while effectively eliminating the most expensive cost of doing business—labor. The average MTR mine employs eighty-nine...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Evidence began to miraculously appear. Investigators "found" a .45-caliber pistol. Never mind that there were no fingerprints on it and it turned out to have been stolen from a firing...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...the government bodies charged with mitigating the consequences of its products' various uses. As these conversations took place, DDT acquired a layered symbolism: it remained a wartime miracle to most,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...those passages out of a King James Bible in order to “convolute” them and symbolize how some people bend, misconstrue, misinterpret, and mistranslate biblical teachings in the present in order...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...mining town, Welch, West Virginia, 1938, loc.gov/pictures/item/2017799282. Bottom, Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home, Bluefield section of Welch, West Virginia, 1938, loc.gov/pictures/item/2017799287. Photographs by FSA photographer...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...potentially transcending a middle class life, and the National Organization for Marriage has fought against anything that even looks like gay marriage on the grounds that it might weaken an...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...