Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...by jazz, blues, soul and rhythm and blues artists. The family bar was directly across the street from Ghost Town, a now defunct venue often referred to as "the place...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
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...
Whiskey and Geography
...to Ireland where local residents learned to make liquor (known in Ireland as "potchin") to supplement farm income. Photo courtesy of the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College. In fact,...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blueprints for construction of new Little Ivy Church, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Cemetery...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...gospel and gospel blues music, but I've been listening to it constantly in the past month as a source of encouragement. I've enjoyed the track "If I Could Just Hold...
2014 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Reading
...“Langston’s Blues” Part 6: Jericho Brown reads “Track Five: Summertime” Part 7: Jericho Brown reads “Heart Condition” About Jericho Brown Jericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award and fellowships...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...reads from “Letter: Blues,” “Frank Willis,” “Talk Radio, DC” Part 4: Alexander reads “Race” and comments on the pale-skinned body; Trethewey compares “Race” and Phillip Levine’s “The Mercy” Part 5: Alexander reads...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...a cracked womb. His song will never be earth or flesh. 3. Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water stirs the silt of blues makes music of ashes feeds death clotted anger...