Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...Elvis Presley. Courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. The book is organized around chapters devoted to individual genres, and often a single recording artist. Comentale begins by chronicling the Mississippi Delta's industrialization...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...of Pylon made enough money to live cheaply in Athens, they weren't exactly comfortable. To reach the next level, they hired a professional booking agent. He landed them a gig...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...and exactly one waiting room for Blacks—a "small and dirty room" that had to be entered from the side of the building.8"Atlanta Terminal of the Southern Railway," International Railway Journal...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...in an area long central to the geography of what is now an international music culture with roots in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida, and Texas.4On Sacred Harp's shifting geography, see...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...learned about the Mexican millionaires responsible for BVL. According to a 1974 newspaper article from his personal archive, "An international consortium of real estate interests, headed by the leading development...
Bodies and Souls
...The Mississippi Delta is at the epicenter of these trends, and Jonestown is located in the heart of the Delta. Between the Yazoo and Mississippi Rivers, this town of 1,600...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...were unable to include in the one-hour documentary: additional context and perspectives for considering factory flight, international labor migration, and the organized demand for economic justice. Workers at Toyoda/TRW Plant...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...During the Depression few people were willing to spring for the price of tickets, and drive-ins slowly appeared on the outskirts of other urban areas, such as Galveston, Texas, Los...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Merle Barber, c/o Mississippi Poultry Workers' Union, Rt. 2, Box 11, Forest, Miss.40"Delta Ministry Report," May 1972, Charles Horwitz Papers, Tougaloo College Civil Rights Collection, T/014, Mississippi Department of Archives...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Conservation of Biological Diversity (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2005). J.W. Watson and P.B. Eyzaguirre, editors, "Proceedings of the Second International Home Gardens Workshop: Contribution of home gardens to in...