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

When the Border Crossed Me

Video Charles D. Thompson, Los Rostros del Tiempo: Faces of Time, 2014. Reflection My border odyssey began in 1985 on a farm near Pittsboro, North Carolina. On a hot summer...

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...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...term to associate Sacred Harp singing with the authenticity, folkloricity, and exoticism that the term "southern" carries for audiences in the United States. Other singers explicitly associated the practices of...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...where you wait beneath a stone and a secret name. * There are angels. There are angels! you said: They guard and watch. Tonight, their sudden wings multiply the city's...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...came out into the spaces of the project, into the spaces of our city, into a new relationship with queer history. A past with a future. Every October we celebrate...

Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895

...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...