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...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...one thinks they can. No integrated church service, concert, or program, no matter how powerful, can or should erase history. Skeptics of all political persuasions can easily cast every representation...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...