History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...strident criticism against "the cultural elite and their aspirants—image-conscious doyens, urbanophiles and preservationists, literati and academics, music connoisseurs and foodies, insecure transplants proving their bona fides, college students making a...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...crowd: a mixed humanity of international tourists, locals, white and black visitors, children, art students, and elderly couples. They enter running into the grotto to escape the storm and drafty...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...communities (including liberal students at Austin's University of Texas campus) in a diversified blend one step removed from mass culture. Musicologist Travis Stimeling has delineated key sonic elements that helped...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...times and each sequence was slightly different. In addition, I watched as several high school students played the game. They spent more time on this interactive simulation than any other...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...their inspiration from Birmingham, hundreds of African American high school students demonstrating in support of voting rights were arrested and incarcerated in Selma in the months before March 1965. But...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...tapes to her students at Clinch Valley College in Wise, Virginia. While in Appalachia, Gaventa recorded music-making at the Brookside Strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1975, Lewis expanded this multi-media...
Ars Poetica #100: I Believe
Poetry, I tell my students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves (though Sterling Brown said "Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'"), digging in the clam flats for the...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...Georgia students came from suburban Atlanta and had grown up with a dose of post-civil rights movement Sunbelt optimism. Musician Vic Varney, a member of the Tone Tones and the...
Remnants of Flannery
...Drago's words, in Christine Ernest's pixelated and distorted needlework portrait, in O'Connor's words that remain in print and are read by countless students and fans. As the recent Bitter Southerner...