Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Mt. Zion Cemetery: Washington, DC, Brief History and Interments, comp. by Paul E. Sluby, Sr. (Washington DC: Columbian Harmony Society, 1984); Paul E. Sluby, Sr., Bury me deep: Burial Places Past...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Arkansas.com, Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism, accessed October 15, 2013, http://www.arkansas.com. A particular Arkansas primitivism merits attention here. Arkansas, writes Brooks Blevins, "has become in many ways indistinguishable from...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...for good food, there is also a yearning for an idealized, pastoral past and an agrarian vision of virtue and abundance. So many city dwellers descend from rural roots —...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and short videos, Southern Spaces will publish peer-reviewed music essays and digital projects as a part of this series. We imagine music essays as collections of audio recordings with accompanying text. Digital...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...patterns today called "Rob Peter to Pay Paul." These patterns became popular during the late-nineteenth century and were published under many names during the twentieth. The common element is the...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...unfinished. Nannie Coan probably found the unfinished star patchwork after Rosa's death in 1908, when the children went through their parents' household belongings. The label indicates that Nannie made the...
Piedmont Blues
...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....
Failed Memory Exercise
The water tank above the trees, and then the town, Lord God, the sudden, blunt, exhilarating shock Of pavement against the chert of the bottom road, Bare schoolyard, white clinic,...
The Chesapeake Bay
...know that Paleo-Indians hunted in what is now the offshore Atlantic coast since fishermen have recently found Paleo-Indian hunting implements and the remains of extinct species. About 4,500 years ago,...