A Green Democratic Revolution
...deterioration of the environment and the quality of life posed a question of survival for humanity. It was originally born of a spontaneous protest against the destruction of everyday culture...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...thought, "We're going to be late for school." Only when my mother called home around 8:00 and told us we better walk that day did I understand that something had...
Brown, Common Meter, 511t
1) I love to steal a while away From ev'ry cumb'ring care, And spend the hours of setting day, In humble, grateful, pray'r. 2) I love in solitude to shed...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white supremacy—deserted and superfluous. Today, physical evidence of Jim Crow's imprint on southern state parks is hard to find, except in the racial demographics of park users, which remain overwhelmingly...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act, which regulates water quality standards and limits water pollution. Citizen groups...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...own training and local performance styles. Most of the popular music people heard before the 1920s took the form of what we call "cover" songs today. Recorded sound, in particular,...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...men are obligated to attend the Friday congregational prayer (jum'ah). But the jum'ah prayer is only one index of women's mosque attendance. Mosques also are gendered spaces in the way...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...of song and sound allowed Guthrie to transcode "everyday life into a looser, immaterial set of relations" (155). These dynamics ultimately allowed the singer/songwriter to claim "the entire land with...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...