When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Michael W. Harris, Robert Darden, Anthony Heilbut, Glenn Hinson, Wyatt Tee Walker, Pearl Williams-Jones, Robert Marovich, and Jerma Jackson.1See Horace Clarence Boyer, Golden Age of Gospel (Champaign: University of Illinois...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“a belt of randomly fissured or cracked rock that may be filled with mineral deposits.” Its meaning shifted dramatically after World War II when it began to be used in...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...A History of Dumbarton United Methodist Church 1772–1990 (Washington, DC: Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 1998); J.W. Cromwell, "The First Negro Churches in the District of Columbia," The Journal of Negro...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...to reclaim the devil's music for God. At first, this meant reclaiming (or sonically imitating) mainly rock 'n' roll, but ultimately it came to encompass almost any kind of popular...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...ordinance thrown out because of its ambiguous wording, Roswell adopted language that bans (noisy) roosters and bases the number of birds per residence on lot size. And who was the...
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Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...Scott L. "John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Southern Spaces, August 6, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/john-cohen-eastern-kentucky-documentary-expression-and-image-roscoe-halcomb-during-folk-revival. Miller, Matt. "Dirty Decade: Rap...
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]
...women quilted this top with close rows of stitches irregularly in "elbows," an angular variation of the more rounded "fan" quilting design. Fan quilting is one of the all-over designs...
Piedmont Blues
...one hundred miles wide. "Among the rolling hills, small farms, mills, and coal and railroad camps of the rural East Coast Piedmont, between Tidewater coast and the Appalachian Mountains of...