The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...music landscape of the late 1970s and 1980s because their members liked to play in all the meanings of the term: to participate, to perform, to move, and to pretend....
Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...toward things that are farther away — as a rough analogue, though in reverse, to the historical layering process that formed the cityscape. In the parts of these cities that...
Whiskey and Geography
...and through protests they made it clear that whiskey was their only source of cash and their way out of debt. Taxing that main means of escape from dire poverty...
Remnants of Flannery
...a year to trace or commune with O'Connor's ghost; she writes, "my interest is in trying to photograph the landscape as O'Connor saw it in her time and to allow...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
Introduction . . . Hello everybody and welcome friends to your Tennessee Jamboree here on another Saturday evening. I'll tell you what, it's good to have you tuned our way....
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a hand in the production of lifestyle. Such was the story in urban and suburban enclaves across Atlanta's vast landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Economic, social, and...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...succumbing to the effects of smallpox, treaties, and armed conflict. At first, the self-sufficient farmers in this heavily wooded landscape owned few slaves. Enmeshed in a spreading web of neighbors...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...sturdy, thriving agrarians inhabiting a blissful Middle Landscape."6James R. Shortridge, The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989), 28; Wilbur Zelinsky, "Review of The Middle West: Its...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...a Wal-Mart built on a strip mine bench, using each setting to highlight the ways in which commerce and consumption are transforming the mountain landscape. Donald R. Rasmussen says, "The...