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....
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...in an emerging era of global fan culture. Comentale's discussion is framed by a dubious comparison to Dadaist art of Marcel Duchamp. "Whereas Duchamp lifts trash into a new context,...
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...a hard time beginning in a plural voice. Also, his voice has previously appeared on the Southern Spaces blog. go film as part of my fieldwork. I propped myself up...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...experiences are the center’s exhibitions, books, awards, radio programming, multimedia production, fieldwork projects, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. In addition to his work at CDS, Tom Rankin is...
"Aint that Something?"
...behind the family's home place. Her grandmother is the most stable, and heroic, member of the family. An illustration of Jennifer Lawrence as Ree Dolly in Debra Granik's film adaptation...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–80 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005). In a film based on the Stevens campaign, Norma Rae (Sally Fields) holds up a...