Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...was evident at the Ireland Convention. Neely Bruce and David Ivey (a renowned Alabama singing master from a prominent singing family) were invited as co-teachers of a singing school. Between...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...researched and written on grassroots music traditions in the US South, the west of Ireland, and East Africa and writes for the urban music and culture website, The Smoking Section....
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...the boundaries between academic disciplines and between this scholarship and accounts written by collectors and music fans. He begins with the simple yet profound idea that people's aural worlds in...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...who were born before or during World War II and lived in Atlanta or the US South during most of their adulthood or at least prior to the late 1960s....
New Shades o'Death Creek
...With the spring vegetation, it was hidden just then, but Lydde knew where it was, behind a fold of land down and to the left. Farther east, once midway up...
Cajun South Louisiana
...so Acadians who came from Nova Scotia to the lower Mississippi River Valley between 1765 and 1803 adapted to the new environment. People who once lived on cod and herring...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry https://vimeo.com/126311195 Part 1: November 6, 2001: Leavell describes basic procedures involved in a timber harvest, namely selection and organization into wood types. https://vimeo.com/126311196 Part 2: March 3, 2002:...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...expressed by the participants' point-to-point network of small places, a tension between the ideal and real. With no defined boundaries between southeastern occupants, Europeans drafted manuscript maps that reinforced imagined...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...road cuts through some of the most rugged country in the eastern US, along centuries-old routes used by Natives and settlers. Construction required the removal of hundreds of acres of...
Bricking the Church
...back when they set their minds and savings to it. They wanted to assert its form and presence if not in stone at least in hardened earth, urban weight, as...