Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Los Angeles. © Richard Misrach. For me, the petrochemical culture of southeastern Louisiana is epitomized by the pipe rack, one of which photographer Richard Misrach captures in plate 23 of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Caribbean and African American women.38On the prevalence of the figure of the cannibal as a controlling image, see Loichot, The Tropics Bite Back, especially xix–xxiii. However, since she is carved...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...The Outlaws. RCA Victor, 1976. Wanted! The Outlaws, 1976. Album Cover. RCA Victor. © RCA Victor. Wanted! The Outlaws does not simply deploy songs of masculine rebellion, it also contains ballads...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb show the breadth of anti-Mexican violence in the US West between 1848 and 1928, Villanueva details what this meant for targeted individuals.1William D. Carrigan...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...happened: Union General William Sherman's headquarters during the Battle, on the campus of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library; Confederate General John B. Hood's vantage point for the Battle, within what...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Caribbean" (11). These are large tasks that Calypso Magnolia sets and achieves to varying degrees. Lowe's work enters existing scholarly conversations in what some have called the "New Southern...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...(1984); Jane Landers, ed., Against the Odds: Free Blacks in the Slave Societies of the America (London: Frank Cass, 1996); and Margo Pope, "Slavery and the Oldest City," The St. Augustine...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Melo's most recent drama, Cádiz en José Martí (Festival de Teatro Iberoamericano de Cádiz, 2020), he dramatizes the mythic national hero of the island, revolutionary figure José Martí (1853–1895), by...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...virtuoso playing in the treble range."1Evans, David. "The Development of the Blues." Chapter. In The Cambridge Companion to Blues and Gospel Music, edited by Allan Moore, 20–43. Cambridge Companions to Music....