Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and consumption (record, radio, etc.) (7). Along with secondary literature, Comentale culls together various sources—including select song lyrics, trade magazine articles from Rural Radio, Woody Guthrie's novel Bound for Glory,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...volume and intensity. The lyrics speak of the transience of life on earth and express a longing for a more joyous existence in the next world. The music has a...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...2013, http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130903/SCENE04/309030069/. This retreat from metropolis to outpost acknowledges that southern gospel is no longer a national phenomenon.37 Douglas Harrison, "Slouching Toward Pigeon Forge." Averyfineline.com, September 24, 2012, accessed October...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...the other. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 played out transnationally, with leaders hiding in exile in Texas, and sedicioso raiders striking US settlements along the border. News reports of attacks...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...Introduction The art flows through me, but does not belong to me alone. It speaks for those who have no voices, whose voices have been ignored, whose voices have been...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...The Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, Audio, 29:21, https://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/History/American-History/How-Long-Not-Long/90591. In remembering the Jim Crow he experienced, Adolph Reed has added nuance and insight to understanding...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...Press, 2013); Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris, Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897–1922 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018); James T. Campbell and Elaine...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...change was long overdue: the uprooting of segregation (though not the racial face of poverty), with its "colored only" drinking fountains, restrooms, streetcar seating, and other vestiges of separate-but-hardly-equal affronts...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...around Columbus. On weekends, he and his wife Cathy drove within a fifty-mile radius, and, to their great delight, learned that the area was filled with exceptional blues players. "Every...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Testament," September 6, 1887, provides a stipend of $200 to a woman named Mary Neale, "once owned by me, and long since manumitted." This person may be the Mary Neil...