Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
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...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the International Center for Photography in New York. The Whitney staged a major retrospective, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, that traveled to the Cocoran Gallery of Art...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...a voice, a mouth that drinks, and a set of "parts" that cool wind blows across in the night (11).4William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (New York: Vintage International Edition,...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...During Tom’s tenure as director, CDS has become an internationally recognized documentary arts institution, annually offering many undergraduate courses and continuing education classes leading to certificates. Integral to these educational...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...healthcare law varies across place. The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...family history; discussion of "Elegy for the Southern Drawl;" and realism.) About Rodney Jones Rodney Jones won the 2007 Kingsley Tufts Prize and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry...