Southern Spaces Recommends
...gospel and gospel blues music, but I've been listening to it constantly in the past month as a source of encouragement. I've enjoyed the track "If I Could Just Hold...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...“Langston’s Blues” Part 6: Jericho Brown reads “Track Five: Summertime” Part 7: Jericho Brown reads “Heart Condition” About Jericho Brown Jericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...devastating and troubling account of blue-collar Americans and a portrait of the sorry state of public policy, but with a hopefulness about what needs to be done. I'm enjoying selectively...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
Interview excerpt in which Precious Bryant discusses some of her earliest musical experiences. Recorded by Steve Bransford in Waverly Hall, Georgia, 2003. Courtesy of Steve Bransford. From "Blues in the...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...industrial Louisiana in company patches on long-sleeved blue shirts: Diamond M, Gulfstream, Burlington Resources, W&T. I had seen Richard Misrach's ghostly photographs documenting images of my hometown: the salted cypress...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...reads from “Letter: Blues,” “Frank Willis,” “Talk Radio, DC” Part 4: Alexander reads “Race” and comments on the pale-skinned body; Trethewey compares “Race” and Phillip Levine’s “The Mercy” Part 5: Alexander reads...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...economies seems to be spreading.6See Herbert Reid and Betsy Taylor, Recovering the Commons: Democracy, Place, and Global Justice (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010); Kathryn Newfont, Blue Ridge...
Failed Memory Exercise
...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...of jazz, brass band, R&B, and funk (as well as blues and zydeco). What might all be lumped into the single category of "hiphop" in other parts of the United...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...