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,...
Emory University Team Launches Mobile Tour App for Historic Battle of Atlanta Sites
...and even parking suggestions for those who drive the route. The app launched with a celebration and demonstration held Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. at the Atlanta Cyclorama &...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Unicorn Stencil Documentary Films, 2011). Today, public housing has become a trenchant symbol of failure. By the late 1970s, low-income black people who resided disproportionately in public housing were often...
How I Shed My Skin
...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...homes, repairing roofs, and replanting trees. Some Mississippians also devise their own defenses, building homemade havens into the earth. Photographer's Statement Driving down a long Mississippi road one day, I...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...writing down, through a hyper-awareness of the place the researcher is temporarily occupying, the seemingly minute details of everyday life. This is important because, as Clifford Geertz—the first to practice...
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...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the present day, but also exploring remnants from the Cold War, Charles D. Thompson of the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, along with Alexander Stephens of the Marian Cheek...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...found murdered on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The body of the Democratic candidate was discovered near the base of the Mississippi River after having been missing for a day. The...