Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...Author Erich Nunn is Assistant Professor of English at Auburn University, where he teaches American Studies, with an emphasis on the literature and culture of the US South. He is...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
...a brave reclamation and reckoning: a reclamation rooted in the absolute necessity to articulate, in the elegant language of poetry, a fuller version of our American story. Beyond the sheer...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...earlier historical timeline (back to 1700), and the perspective of world systems theory. "On the eve of the Civil War," she concluded, "Appalachians were much more likely than other Americans...
Bricking the Church
...Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he received the History Award...
The Civil Rights Archive
Video Part 2: Dr. Patton explains the layout of Trenholm State's Civil Rights Archive and addresses obstacles she encountered...
Fife Family Cemetery
Video Fife Family Cemetery, Hughes County, Oklahoma, 2008. Filmed by Craig Womack and Rosemary McCombs Maxey, edited by Southern Spaces staff. Affiliated essay....
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...University of California Santa Cruz, and Eric Porter, a University of California Santa Cruz American Studies and history professor, take the title of their book from a five-movement Duke Ellington-composed...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...and well-preserved Native American (Guale) shellring on the northwestern corner of the island gives evidence that humans have experienced Sapelo for at least 4,500 years. The arrival of the Spanish...
The Border South
...free black Americans in the South. Over 55,000 blacks in Virginia were free in 1860, over 80,000 in Maryland, including over 25,000 in the city of Baltimore. Most free blacks...