Arkansas Delta, Brinkley, Arkansas, 2008
Delta field fire, Dundee, Mississippi, 2006
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...the "demand" side of this equation, the music produced in a given locale must accommodate national audiences' sonic, lyrical and thematic expectations in a way that does not push existing...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...up, preservation, metadata. Paul O'Grady will remember the weeks we spent working with Emory metadata librarian Laura Akerman. Everything was a blank slate. Everything required decisions. At launch, we used...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...manner to healing the loss and suffering that this great catastrophe entailed. Since I had been photographing in the state of Mississippi for over twelve years (mostly in the Delta...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...McGraw et al., The Sacred Harp, 299. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4Td-xSsAE&feature=youtu.be?rel=0&enablejsapi=1 [360-degree videos can only be viewed on a desktop computer or in the YouTube app on a mobile device. Click and drag...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...around here. . ."6Rose, Chris. "Badges of honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans...
Editors
...to Distributed Digital Preservation (Educopia Institute, 2010), and Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Educopia Institute, 2012). Barbara Ellen Smith Professor Emerita of Women's and Gender Studies Department of Sociology Virginia Tech...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...of cotton prices, Davis Bend failed, and its residents relocated to the Mississippi Delta bottomlands to found Mound Bayou in 1887. The town earned regional notoriety for its numerous Black...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...a tradition. We heard blues on Beale Street and took part in lectures and discussions in Oxford, Mississippi, before visiting with racial reconciliation leaders in Jackson and the Delta. Ruth...