The Change
...big business in the Reagan era and the slow murder of method from a hundred years before. When the loons cried out in laughter by the springs and the bass...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...small town of Middendorf, twelve miles north of Hartsville. Born to a working-class family, Gainey picked cotton at an early age with his brothers, sister, and cousins. Through relatives and...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...efforts to attract industry, the intermingling politics of race and class, and the urban-rural divide. Manganiello, however, much like Marc Reisner in his study of the American West, emphasizes water politics, encouraging...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...Karlsberg, P. Dan Brittain teaches a "rudiments of music" class at Camp Fasola Europe, Chmielno, Poland, 2012. A key concern of European singers was how they should negotiate between their...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...how we represent them digitally. When it comes to race, class, gender, and other inherited categories and constructs, we now have the opportunity to reframe or redefine those terms. From...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
The Liminal Site
...site is thus classically liminal, on the threshold between city and forest, automobile grid and curving mountainside. Deranged by the mountain, parallel grid lines converge here: below our house, Twenty-second...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...lesson of four parts in the middle of the class, [while] the rest of the class would get up, hold the starting chord and march around the room in time...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...1940s, Gainey grew up poor and gay in rural South Carolina and attended Clemson University, where he studied ornamental horticulture. Using vernacular plants in classical garden design, he became a...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...of active reception. Why do we keep reviving and repremiering the classics? Because their essence, rather than the argument, lies in how the specific story is told today in the...