Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...researched and written on grassroots music traditions in the US South, the west of Ireland, and East Africa and writes for the urban music and culture website, The Smoking Section....
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...southern identity as much as I have hoped for at least a temporary ban on men in cowboy hats recording songs about the joys of small town southern life. This...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...With the spring vegetation, it was hidden just then, but Lydde knew where it was, behind a fold of land down and to the left. Farther east, once midway up...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s. The...
Bricking the Church
...back when they set their minds and savings to it. They wanted to assert its form and presence if not in stone at least in hardened earth, urban weight, as...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...leverage toward efficacy, power, and self-confidence. Rey and Stepick suggest that the collusio is at work in all Haitian American religious spaces. From Catholicism's political advocacy and feast days to...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...Chronicles is on display in Emory's Manuscript and Rare Books Library until May 16, 2014 as a part of the "Building a Movement in the Southeast: LGBT Collections in MARBL"...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...US South where they once existed or dominated, ranging from Maryland down and across the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts to east Texas. The book's creators are activists in the longleaf...