Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
Introduction: Series Editor's Note Martin Padgett's A Night at the Sweet Gum Head explores a cast of historical actors who shaped modern LGBTQ+ politics and culture in 1970s Atlanta, Georgia....
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...by telling me if we can come and when we can come. Please rush your information."41Susan Jordan, letter to J.D. Lewis (WRAL), n.d. [ca. 1966-67], Lewis Family Papers, folder 140. A...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
“If I could attach our blood vessels in order to anchor you to the earth to this present time I would... It makes me weep to feel the history of...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...vanishing species, which it was, which all songs are, years before the stroke wrenched her face into a gnarled silence, this morning before all that she led us across Jordan,...
The Heavenly Port, Common Meter, 378t
On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye…… From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...for, among other things, playing local rap on New Orleans's listener-supported community radio station, WWOZ 90.7FM.14See Scott Jordan, "The Rap on WWOZ," The Gambit, August 19, 2003, http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/the-rap-on-wwoz/Content?oid=1241861. Rogan was...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
Review Essay Of all the southern spaces Alan Lomax visited during his Depression-era excursions into vernacular American music, the French-speaking communities populating south Louisiana forever captivated his imagination. "The Cajun...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
Video and Essay Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs. A short film by Steve Bransford, 2010. Since early 2010, Steve Bransford has been working on a documentary video portrait...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...New Jersey, or wherever they came from to build these houses and buy condos in Florida. The building boom was amazing. People such as Burt Reynolds and Michael Jordan were...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...a social geography that they were remaking to suit themselves. In annual Bridge Crossing speeches, the Alabama River often becomes the Jordan or the Red Sea, watery passageways leading to...