Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...As the black fiddler Howard Armstrong recalled, musicians performing at dances in east Tennessee around 1920 had to be able to perform an eclectic repertory. Because everyone seemed to want...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...in greater detail would make for an interesting analysis of this time period. Here, however, I concentrate primarily on Sibley's thick descriptions of the area around Sweet Apple and the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Bridle round his Neck, reaching to the Ceiling. He was leaning against a Chair (as was his Custom in Prayer) and his Hands uplifted. In this Posture He was found...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...our trip, we came across many models of reconciliation. Faith-based Mission Mississippi brings people together for social activities that build trust around shared religious values. Northern Ireland has created political...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...know it is constructed properly. I know that and then there is always new techniques and try to learn around everybody I go around.15Interview was broadcast November 2, 2005, on...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Helvétius, Œuvres Complètes, Vol. 1 (Paris: Lepetit, Editeur, 1777), 25. Author's translation. An abolitionist movement in the 1780s calls itself "Blood Sugar" on the ground that "sugar cane was fertilized...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of these big, colorful and complex songs of the self, Black folks make their own time while the wheels keep turning round and round. About the Author Daphne A. Brooks is...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...within fundamentalist and evangelical Protestantism.As the fortunes of southern gospel have declined, those of Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) have risen. CCM is a broad category built around religious songs that,...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official's Reconnaissance Trip to the US South." Southern Spaces, March 18, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/color-democracy-japanese-public-health-officials-reconnaissance-trip-us-south. Herring, Christie. Bodies and Souls. Southern Spaces, November 30, 2009....