The Place of Appalachia
...epitomized in financial trading, multinational jumble of languages and cultural symbols, or cosmopolitan placelessness described and theorized by observers of global cities.4Saskia Sassen, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Crying I Want Your Little Loving John Henry Keep Your Arms Around Me Left My Poor Baby Crying Lonesome House Blues Love Blues Lucy Mae Blues Mellow Peaches My Babe...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...prize up there and he wanted me, up here at Johnson City, and he wanted me to go to uh, go to Buena Vista with him. He was going to...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...band music and ballad singing were white sounds, and musicians, whatever their race, moved between styles and genres depending on their skills and what their paying customers wanted to hear....
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Archives and History. Hutchison's second chapter explores the cosmopolitan, international ambitions of Confederate writers, particularly Augusta Jane Evans in her wartime novel Macaria. However much they wanted to demonstrate the...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...Dolly clan, who have their own pressing reasons for not wanting anyone to solve the mystery of Jessup Dolly’s disappearance. Ree is repeatedly warned not to “trouble” male kinfolk such...