The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...Rooting musical practices in the lives of individuals and individual creativity in broader cultural context, The Makers of the Sacred Harp is an indispensable study of the countless acts of...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...until its closure in 2009. Operating once a week, it attracted both local and out-of-state buyers. Initially, the auction sold both cattle and hogs, gaining a reputation as one of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...shrouded in smog looms over it. It's a busted up Emerald City, desaturated and toxic, an unreal city in an industrialized Oz. HBO has three shows set in Louisiana: Treme,...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...horror is real and persistent, especially if you try to ignore it. About the Author Daniel Pecchenino is a lecturer in the writing program at the University of Southern California....
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...of Sacred Harp participation.4Miller, in Traveling Home, and Clawson, in I Belong to this Band, are particularly focused on Sacred Harp singers’ notions of “tradition” and “authenticity.” In imagining this...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Ala Wai canal, a lagoon off Waikiki that displaced wetlands used by island Natives for fishing and agriculture in Waikiki, see Sophie Cocke, "Ala Wai Canal: Hawaii's Biggest Mistake?," Honolulu...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...1900. In an early 1930s interview with the ethnomusicologist John Work III, Rainey notes that she first heard blues at a tent show in a small Missouri town in 1902.21While...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007