When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...annual award shows; the music of secular stars like Beyoncé, D'Angelo, Missy Elliot, Snoop Dogg, Chance the Rapper, and Kanye; the cinematic offerings of such avant-garde filmmakers as Arthur Jafa,...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...scene brought together seemingly opposing identities—the hippie (the emblem of youth counterculture) and the redneck (the standard representation of working-class Anglo-Texan masculinity)—in its formation of the cosmic cowboy. This "coming...
When the Border Crossed Me
...of Cultural Anthropology and Documentary Studies at Duke University. An author and filmmaker, Thompson's latest works are Border Odyssey: Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide (University of Texas Press, 2015), the films...
Work
...throwing thread. Clack-thump. Clack-thump. Hammering sirens sing fiber into endless reams of cloth. Clack-thump. Whir. Whir. Whir. Fibrous colors drape the architecture of my sleep. Clacking and whirring lift louder...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...have a Polaroid Land Camera 340, old as me purchased in the early seventies, inherited from great uncle Phineas. It works but every photograph is a ritual — no auto...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...the emergence of "anti-Bourbons"—entertainment zones that offer a putatively more authentic alternative. In the process, Campanella shows how geographic, demographic, and economic features shape the Street's character and success, parses...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...living — eating locally and sustainably — and to connect with one another in an urban world. Books have been written. Documentary films have been made. I was interviewed for...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...left them — scant, ascetic, homely, and yet comfortable. One has the sense, poking about, that they are not the ghosts haunting the place so much as we are —...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...