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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Bricking the Church

...and as its doctrine softens puts on a hard shell for weathering this world. Acknowledgments "Bricking the Church"  from Robert Morgan's book Groundwork (Gnomon Press, 1979) appears here by permission of...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...Bastin, Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1986), 151. Left, Georgia Fife and Drum Band, Waverly Hall, Georgia, 1969. Right, Bud Grant,...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...sonic qualities and mostly invented "folk" histories. Instead, musicians shared a broad, interracial musical culture and the tastes of southern working class and middle-class, black and white listeners overlapped. All...

How I Shed My Skin

...Algonquin Books.  The transformations from sixth to seventh grade, from lackadaisical Mr. Vaughn's class to the precise Mrs. Ferguson, from foe to friend of black classmates, helped expose southern white...