Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Jim Bunkley: He could play. That’s right. Mitchell: What about your mother? Jim Bunkley: She played piano. Mitchell: So you had a whole music family. Lottie Kate Bunkley: Mm-hmm. I’ll...
At Sun Ra's Grave
...no iron, and the streets below where no dynamite novas bloom. In abandoned halls, pianos hold their farewell notes, radios tremble quietly. All that is empty is space like a...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...the narrative—the first of which, "Foundations," provides an orientation to Afro-diasporic cultural production, artistry, and the built environment in the years leading up to Katrina. From a player piano in...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...predators who would target children, despite the cornucopia of both state and federal laws that are still in effect.218.2-48(ii)(iii), 13.2-61, 13.2-63, 18.2-67.3, 18.2-67.4, 18.2-370, and 18.2-374 (respectively Abduction for Immoral...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
African American Suburbanization Part 2: Dr. Wiese traces how Black suburbs faced intensified segregation and isolation from the post-WWII period through the 1960s Part 3: Dr. Wiese discusses how Black neighborhoods grew...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...as a practice, aesthetic, and a subject, and no early band embodied all the aspects of this quality more clearly than Oh-OK. As a practice, child’s play meant the valuing...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami from its early days as a "queer frontier" to how it sustained a reputation as "a site where one could transgress gender and sexual norms."5Capó, 4. The 1950s saw...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...facilities that dotted the South, few were more nakedly unequal or more clearly designed to inscribe white supremacy and black inferiority onto the built and natural environment than public parks....