Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...tenor and treble sections include men and women, creating the effect of a six-part, rather than a four-part, harmony. Sacred Harp music frequently includes fuging tunes, which incorporate a technique...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Howard Dodson, Making Art at the Schomburg: Africana Archives as Sites of Art Making (Part 1 of 3), 2014. Art making has been a critical aspect of the human experience...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...way we inhabit places, an intellectual project that would, years later, change the way I looked at my hometown of Spartanburg, and possibly even change the way it looked at...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...work at the time out of step with the much more highly innovative and experimental work of my colleagues. Eric Solomon In retrospect, I was attempting in my juvenilia poems...
Good-Bye to All That?
...I would have gleaned from reading a dozen books on the subject. Location of Transylvania County in North Carolina (top) and location of the Pisgah Forest Precinct in Transylvania County,...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...immovable or sacrosanct or inevitable by locality. Since 2002, Louisiana has wooed filmmakers and television producers through the state's Motion Picture Tax Incentive Act, which offers a 30 percent tax...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Slave was named the best drama of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Having been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, expect the film...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the activists caught the attention of Carson, who began investigating the impact of DDT across the country. That research culminated in the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, and Spears...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...leased out by a neighboring slaveholder. In a compelling racial scenario largely overlooked by historians, these enslaved guides were responsible for the conduct and well-being of the many white men...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...