The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Method Actors, expressed the spirit of the early Athens scene: “There’s absolute naïveté here about the possibilities about life on Earth. I don’t know why we’re so arrogant or stupid...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...(New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009). Armed resistance to Hamilton's tax on distilled spirits, which did not distinguish between commercial and household production, arose from the high value of...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...in "local color" passages on voodoo and black spiritual churches, here dubbed "Negro cults." But these sacred institutions, rooted as they were in the culture of West Africa and the...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...artist for whom the South's past and present supplied endless and unpredictable material. On studio and live recordings, the self-proclaimed bluesologist can be found resurrecting the spirit of Jean Toomer's...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
Transcript: Interview with Precious Bryant
...spirituals, we was named the Blue Moon Gospel Singers. Well, and then after that we quit for a while and sooner or later started back, and it was the Bussey...
Quilting Conversation
...quilters, students, and activists. Michael Moon Michael Moon considers quilts as kōans ("What is this?") and, with several vivid examples, ponders the intense emotional power and spiritual force that includes,...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...What Montana and Erika wanted to do, and what I felt was in the spirit of the story, was a documentary style. To try to be in it with the...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
Debby Holcombe, Cover of booklet for "Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music," 2012. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. On April 14, the exhibition...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...