Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...parking in a grass lot around back. Nancy Marshall, O'Connor's chair, Andalusia, Spring 2007. When I get out, I notice a few others milling about on self-guided tours, their voices...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
Through all the sorrow of the Sorrow Songs there breathes a hope—a faith in the ultimate justice of things. The minor cadences of despair change often to triumph and calm...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...we studied are trying to figure out how to attract financial support around public presentation of their complex histories while remaining truthful to them. South Africa Our time in South...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...we have broken: a human cosmos that may be dirtied beyond repair. Where to begin? Charles Wright's poem "In Praise of Thomas Hardy" takes us straight to the heart of...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...homosexuals." Bill Smith, Georgia State Capitol, Summer 1971 The television camera stared at Bill as he strode down the sidewalk. He wore his usual explosion of red-brown hair and goatee,...
Aftermath
...hawk has taken back the air above new grass, and the doe again can hide her young. I can tell you now I crossed that field, weeks before the first...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Gal Blues Come From Texas Jack of Diamonds Good Morning, Lil School Girl Hard Luck Blues The Howling Wolf Oh, Red Rocking Chair Blues Segregation Blues So Sweet Them Greasy...
Anniversary
Early, the city's empty, almost soundless, still. The air has a photograph's grain, a mist that's still deciding whether to rise or fall, and again, we're walking down Dexter, drawn...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...antidote to the 'vanishing' of LBJ" from the national stage. Enacting the redneck hippie, Nelson could "combine iconic Texasness and the airs of modern progressiveness" (163). What is significant about...
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...