When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...when his father started work as a foreman at a local brickyard. In many ways, the world in which young John entered was radically different from that of his older...
Deep Ellum Blues
...center city. African Americans were present in the Dallas area as slaves before the Civil War (97 out of a total population of 678 in 1860), but many more arrived...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...to cast ballots for school board members in 2009 (25). In addition to reassigning students to different schools, the school board also sought to accommodate its growing student body and...
Submission Guidelines
...and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars,...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...Tinny, age seven, born in Maryland c. 1843: Mary Tinny, age five, born in the District of Columbia, c. 1845; Francis Tinny, age three, born in the District of Columbia,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...history as sense-making activity, not merely a litany of dates and deeds. Ideally, readers can feel the pulse of a given period, sniff the atmosphere, and see events in a...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...2010. I have interviewed many participants in the 2005 and 2006 reenactments. I count among my dearest friends persons on all sides of controversies over the reenactment.2For an account of...