Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...1930s and ‘40s. The “newsreel” was a device we used in the film to provide factual information in an entertaining manner. The four newsreels in the documentary evolved out of...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...for them in New York. More local dates followed—a gig opening the new late-night coffee club Night Gallery, and more shows at the 40-Watt and other Athens venues. By early...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...was Raymond Andrews? I wanted to know because I was a lover of literature from and about Georgia, but also because I am from Madison, Georgia, and I knew of...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the newly opened Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in Washington, DC. Evidently a seed sack made of unbleached cotton fabric dating to the mid-nineteenth century,...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...an instant, and Shirley was quiet. It was three days now since Shirley had begun to die, and everyone knew now and had given up any hope. Even the white...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...Valley Singers," Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter 2, no. 3 (December 31, 2013), http://originalsacredharp.com/2013/12/31/there-are-more-singings-now-than-ever-before-hugh-mcgraw-addresses-the-harpeth-valley-singers; Karlsberg, "Folklore's Filter," 105–12. In this post we complicate these narratives, drawing on a newly augmented...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...and created a new taxonomy for American nature. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) today defines an ecoregion as "a large area of land or water that contains a geographically distinct...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career. Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at...