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
..."Vanishing" Texan and the retrenchment of Texas masculinity. In "You a Real Cowboy?: Texas Chic in the Late Seventies," he reviews the iconic films The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas...
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
...with weather? Light floods the film I don't pull through the rollers. I don't want the image to develop yet. I carry it past the governors and statesmen in their...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...laterally via competitive forces" (146). This American success myth, described by film scholar Julie Levinson as incorporating "the dream of rags-to-riches, the image of the can-do American, the credo of...
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
Introduction: A Visit to Andalusia, August 2007 The road leading to the farmhouse is long, rutted, and unpaved —the land surrounding it, quiet and unkempt. I pass a dilapidated milking...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...beyond stereotypes and gain an understanding of the interconnections between the motivations, perceptions, and practices of a group of people.4Karl G. Heider, Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology through Film, 4th ed....