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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Gold Records in Deep Space

...phenomenon," writes Filene, "is that even as the artists it features gain a degree of fame and fortune and a passel of awards, the revival in several key respects holds...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...contributions is his discussion of how academic folklorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in their effort to professionalize their discipline, generated new ideas about the relationship of...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...to the project, one that, fortuitously, my academic role could support. To isolate the travel element, I offer a brief chronology that, since the traveling continues, can only be partial,...

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To subscribe to our monthly email announcements, click here. Email Address: SEditor@Emory.edu Fax Number: 404 727 0827 Mailing Address: Southern Spaces Robert W. Woodruff Library Emory University 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta,...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

Series editor: Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia.  Submission deadline: March 17, 2014. Questions: write to managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. Southern Spaces, a peer-reviewed, online journal, invites scholars, critics,...

The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]

...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...

Piedmont Blues

...1932, and he collaborated with a number of high profile blues artists, including Ma Rainey, Gus Cannon, and Papa Charlie Jackson. Blake disappeared after his last Paramount session in 1932....