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

Georgia Postcard

...Highway Church of God: "You come in here and pray." Roadkill, and blackbirds that pick at it, Chain gangs, and fat scarlet clover in rippling flocks — a North Georgia...

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...England, nineteenth-century Georgia, and among contemporary singers. One remarkable story concerns the three Lancaster sisters of Georgia, all singers and fine Sacred Harp composers, whose family music history goes back...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...

Writing Appalachia

...region's literature isn't available. Poems, short stories, and novels are available electronically from a myriad of websites; however, even today's computer-savvy readers and students can flounder when the material they...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

..."catalyst [and] economic juggernaut for US development."1Pellom McDaniels III, interview with author, December 14, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Detail of 19th-century passbook. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers...

Besieged Terrain

...today. Site of a strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. The technique used to get the coal, called mountain top...