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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

A Mess of Poke

...are rather stately. My Poke Sallet Granny My maternal grandmother, at least, kept eating poke sallet long after she no longer had to because she loved the stuff. Mee-Ma lived...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...the southwestern humor tale—exclusively in its use of language—from one of its earliest successful practitioners, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, to one of its last stylists in the antebellum period, George Washington...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp...