Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...contributions is his discussion of how academic folklorists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in their effort to professionalize their discipline, generated new ideas about the relationship of...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
Excerpt After the end of the Civil War, recently freed Black people endeavored to create their own communities. During Reconstruction, and with newfound access to political and economic power, Black...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...reach up to 100 decibels—roughly as loud as a Ducati Monster 796. After a two-week shore leave in cities such as Washington, DC and New York City, the brood spawned by...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...and I became interested in Foster Auditorium while searching for a topic for our documentary filmmaking course at the University of Alabama. We both knew the story of George Wallace's...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...tendency in the United States for new singers to "imagin[e] this locus of tradition . . . as 'southern,'" in Europe, teachers at Camp Fasola, and new European singers alike...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
Donald Trump on immigration , presidential announcement speech, Trump Tower, New York, New York, June 16, 2015. Courtesy of Giphy. Donald Trump kicked off his large presidential campaign rally in...
Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...brick by brick."5Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 148. For residents whose homes were built—brick-by-brick—by fellow African Americans, from conception to financing to development...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...