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
...Administration," The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 8 (Spring 1988): 6-13. Arthur Rothstein, State highway officials moving sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...places. Understanding the ways that place-based identities change within rap is of central importance.[/fn] Photograph of Atlanta’s Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz at a local landmark (Ichiban Records,...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...Of course, the very best sound is in the center of the hollow square. In this space, the singing is loudest and all four parts achieve their best balance. Many...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...classes were dismissed, several cars full of men were parked around the driveway entrance. Minutes earlier, a taxi had pulled up near the cars, and then driven away. When most...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...Photo by Gary Cosby Jr. Courtesy of Tuscaloosa News. Like most listeners, I'm sure, what I love best about S-Town is McLemore's irrepressible character and voice. McLemore was an antique...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...that took him away from the helm of the News and Observer. Either way, he quickly embraced the idea of writing a book. How that book changed from a "prose...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
I. Introduction Max Vernon, New York, 2018. Photograph by Roberto Araujo. Courtesy of Max Vernon. In February 2017, playwright and composer Max Vernon debuted their first Off-Broadway musical The View...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...for the best analysis of this linkage). Across the US South in the mid-1950s, local television news had a wide effect on the shape of the struggle over civil rights,...