LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...gave a concert in the Hammonds House courtyard. Over the course of the event, the performances came together in unexpected ways. In a recent interview, event coordinator Miriam Denard explained how the performers...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...and sounds. Before recorded music existed, most southerners never heard Broadway hits, for example, except as interpreted by local musicians who sang and played instruments in ways influenced by their...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...on the history of the Tremé see: Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2008); Michael Eugene Crutcher, TremeĢ:...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...1967), 117. In January 2018, the same month the Supreme Court chose not to hear arguments against Mississippi's HB 1523, Jack Zawadski passed away, reuniting with husband Bob Huskey, the...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...resources of different public institutions--libraries, universities, museums, public archives - into a digital collection. This effort has been wildly successful. Aside from a statewide electronic card catalog and an "Ask...
Old oak, Conway, South Carolina, 2008
Midway, Orangeburg, South Carolina, 2008