Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...ways to buy into the false dichotomy that pits artistic performance against documentary, to suggest that art somehow makes reality false, and moreover that there is a recoverable pure, real,...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...near Tiptonville, Tennessee, February 1937. FSA-OWI Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USF33- 009234-M1. The story of how the demonstrators "went out on the road" begins two years before with the Mississippi...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...station in Milwaukee as FCC regulations required multiple broadcast owners to divest from one license in order to buy another. Unable to find a buyer for WVUE, Storer turned the station...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920Ββ1930
...and often implicated them as sites of illicit activity, including the smoking and selling of marijuana.69"Liquor and Mary Warner Seized," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), June 5, 1924, 26. In April 1924,...
The Podcast and the Police: SβTown and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...9, 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/was-the-art-of-s-town-worth-the-pain/522366/; Aja Romano, "S-Town is a stunning podcast. It probably shouldn't have been made," Vox, April 1, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/3/30/15084224/s-town-review-controversial-podcast-privacy. Around the same time that plans for a movie...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...sprung up alongside the highways, where you could get gas, buy a hot dog and candy plus stock up on concrete lawn statues and souvenir mugs and gaudy T-shirts."1http://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/14/sports/sports-of-the-times-atlanta-sends-up-the-balloons.html In...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Christians who are "culturally southern, socially conservative, and Anglo-American."8Stephen Shearon, Harry Eskew, James C. Downey, and Robert Darden, "Gospel Music," Grove Music Online, July 10, 2012, accessed October 15, 2013, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/A2224388....
Genres of Southern Literature
...continued to do so throughout the twentieth century, from the Southern Agrarians' revolt against a national urban-industrial complex in the 1930s, embodied in pastoral forms, to the anti-establishment, anti-"Southern Living"...
The Liminal Site
...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-speciο¬c art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Virtual_Books/Guide_to_State/decaro.html. This is an online reprint of F. A. de Caro, "A History of Folklife Research in Louisiana," in Louisiana...