Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...turn the church into a memorial site that resembles his photographs of the region’s gravestones and family plots. Rankin’s photographs sacralize the Delta landscape and its vernacular church architecture. The...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
Interview with Sandra Beasley Part 2: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley discuss traveling and engaging with the “culinary South,” “traditional” cuisine, and more Part 3: Jake Adam York & Sandra Beasley...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...cultural symbols and musical idioms on the national stage. Historian Barry Shank has detailed the development of Austin as a site of musical expression divorced from the explicit commercialization of...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...man who attempted to blackmail Talley with suggestive photographs he shared on a gay web site. Talley has since become persona non grata in the southern gospel music world despite...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
Introduction In his 1983 book, The People Called Cajuns, James Dorman observes that Cajuns "rarely speak for themselves" in the various sources that refer to them—historical, biographical, or literary—but that...
Regions of Alabama
Video Part 2: Dr. Flynt offers an historical-geographical perspective on Alabama's economy from the antebellum era through 20th century Part 3: Dr. Flynt discusses the importance of a sense...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Rebuilding the Land of Dreams Video Part 2: Spitzer discusses “The Basin Street Blues” and prominent representations of New Orleanians in the realms of work and play Part 3: Spitzer discusses how...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer (2007) that details the way the Custer battle site, and the wider cultural phenomenon of interest in the nineteenth century General, are memorialized...
Naming Each Place
Readings Jericho Brown reads the poem "Like Father." Poem text Jericho Brown reads "Prayer of the Backhanded." Poem text Jericho Brown reads the poem "Scarecrow." Poem text Jericho Brown reads...