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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Deep Ellum Blues

...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...