Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...between tradition and modernity, music and society. Sweet Air stands at the crossroads of several historiographical paths, including recent approaches in cultural studies and vernacular music history.1Comentale uses Josh Kun's...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...leadership to the integration of existing white institutions which were reputedly better staffed and resourced. But some black community members, teachers and students remember that the interdependence and familial care...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...alphabet agencies, brought forth the American Guide Series. Its roughly 400 volumes encompassed every state as well as the territories of Alaska and Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...than a sexy, murky adventure swamp, its Louisiana is in tension between a postindustrial fade to iron surrounded by barren earth and the wild rule of plants and reptiles. As...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...black scholars and institutions committed to using their intellectual powers to create and support the development of a better world for black people are called to do. My work at...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...from 2000 to 2005. He is the author of Freedom Flyers: The Tuskegee Airmen of World War II (2010) and Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...book, the problems it raises, and the ones that remain to be raised. Gwen Ottinger, whose 2013 book Refining Expertise performed a sharp analysis of discourse between local activists protesting...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...square during a break between singing sessions at Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Fayette County, Alabama, 2012. Photograph by Andy Ditzler. Courtesy of Andy Ditzler. After trying out the device at...