Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...Earl compared the work to his favorite performances, noting that he was just as happy listening to his sister Débria (now deceased), an opera singer performing Carmen, as playing the...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 103-130. In 2011 alone dozens of new Civil War histories appeared and to provide an exhaustive list here would not be possible. The...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...garden as well as an outdoor pleasure park named for the Polish nationalist, Louis Kossuth. There were ornamental French gardens of Euclidean beauty, and English gardens that imitated nature instead...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...price list. Dye transfer was the most expensive service offered. "I went straight up there to look," he remembered years later, "and everything I saw was commercial work, like pictures...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...a nation into existence (14). Apples and Ashes is filled with often brilliant and always engaging close readings of antebellum southern nationalist literary criticism and Confederate novels, poems, songs, and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...were Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and some lesser-known denizens of the "outlaw" wing of country music. Ku Klux Klansman Raymond Cranford, Black Panther Bobby Seale, journalist...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...makes it impossible to listen to this music without wanting to tap or spin or leap or sway like a toddler getting used to her feet. The visual style also...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...rest around the "only sleeping" face of his sister. He stood, watching, listening, living. Then they came, silently, dark-bellied clouds drifting up from the south, and the wind, increasing, swept...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...