Piedmont Blues
...improvising tirelessly in several keys. Growing up in South Carolina, he learned from the blind guitarist Willie Walker. He taught Blind Boy Fuller and at some time in the 1930s...
Failed Memory Exercise
...I bump awake over the Atlantic Or wait in the plant-hung lobby of a hotel In Atlanta or Montreal and answer then, though I do not know the nature of...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...of many insights into, for example, military tactics, survival strategies, and commemorative practices. In "The Sounds of Secession," Smith invites readers to listen in to transformations in the Charleston soundscape...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and designed to engineer inequality. This included the "Great Outdoors." In Landscapes of Exclusion: State Parks and Jim Crow in the American South, a fascinating, deeply researched, and richly illustrated...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...notwithstanding, HyperCities is an important contribution to geospatial inquiry in the digital humanities. It models collaborative work with GIS, and it gestures toward future projects in which scholars might combine...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...section. The published version, however, is in 4/4 throughout, which in The Sacred Harp indicates a moderate tempo (itself different from the version Brittain submitted, which was in 2/2 throughout...
Red J. Store on Carroll Street, ca. 1910–1920
...on Carroll Street. Although it's difficult to determine the exact location of the shop from the contextual information contained within the image it's safe to say that it was very...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...served as its first head.6TSU, a historically black university (HBCU), was established in 1927 as the private Houston Colored Junior College. It was converted into a public institution and renamed...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...cases (26 deaths) of the West Nile virus disease in humans in 43 states so far this year. This number represents the highest total in late August since the CDC...
A City Divided
Introduction In spite of increasing animosity between workers and elites, blacks and whites, through the turn of the century, Atlanta's residential landscape remained curiously heterogeneous in terms of race and...