Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...a discussion of "consumer entitlement" (i.e. to what are outsider consumers of culture "entitled," and on what grounds and in what contexts?), a topic that continues to be at the...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...University Press, 2009), 4. Ward's story is only one among many that deserve a hearing, but it is also true that Ward's "difference made a difference" that is not often...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...1700s. What would we be without James Audubon's nineteenth-century visual and literary records of where he went, what he experienced, and what he saw. Or what about Frederick Law Olmsted's...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...the hurricane, highlighting the presence of the Mardi Gras Indians Part 7: Spitzer explores how The Second Line fuses performance and space, work and play; features an interview with Gregory Davis...
Winslow Homer and the American Civil War
Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...Lowcountry environment has devastating and lasting implications that stretch far beyond South Carolina. McCandless is quick to absorb and ponder the irony that the continent’s least healthy place swiftly became...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...landscape, I wondered—what's behind that safety door that people trust with their lives? Would I find Jesus, nailed on a wall, under the Earth, ready to protect and be prayed...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...in their school districts and offered alternatives that could reduce any adverse impact. In addition, SEF recommends that the White House, the US Department of Education, and other federal policymakers...
The Liminal Site
...Nashville Railroad, which carried iron ore from the mines that still angle down into the narrow seam of ore-bearing sandstone that runs along the ridge. Today, it's a footpath that...