Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...“Night Coming Tenderly, Black,” its title taken from the last lines of Langston Hughes' poem, “Dream Variations.” This series of photos explores landscapes near Lake Erie in Ohio and Canada...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...little to counteract the atmosphere of hopelessness and frustration pervasive in poor black neighborhoods. Go-go is heavily rooted in call-and-response lyrical constructions and polyrhythmic, Latin-inspired percussion. It emerged and persisted...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a feature on National Public Radio's All Things Considered last year. I suspect that for those of us who keep urban flocks to connect an environmental ethos with a passion...
Submission Process
...of internal review. The staff looks at several criteria: Quality: Does the piece do critical/analytical work, or is it only illustrative/descriptive? Does the content meet our standards in terms of...
New Website for Music Memory
...of thousands of recordings without commercial potential. The frontpage of Music Memory, an online music archive launched by Lance Ledbetter. This month, Ledbetter has launched Music Memory, his audio-centered spin on the...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...the most destructive disaster in our national experience when one considers the amount of damage it did not only to the physical and social landscapes of the Gulf region but...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...Saul. The oral histories in the NOLA Hip-hop Archive all engage with the specifics of local geographies, many of which are now forever altered post-Katrina. Former No Limit recording artist...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...of Microsoft Word documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery. About the Journal: The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts...