A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...crowd together . . . and somehow learn to improvise a coexistence whose legacy may be America’s only original contribution to world culture” (163). In an epilogue, Powell touches on...
#209, Long Meter
1) We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground, A little spot enclosed by grace Out of the world’s wild wilderness. 2) Like...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World, 2002), and These Hands I Know: Writing About the African American...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
Essay Al Clayton, Will Campbell, 1975. The Reverend Will D. Campbell, a "renegade" Baptist preacher whose unorthodox ministry to a far-flung parish of unchurched souls was the signifying hallmark of...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...pretend approach to interacting with the world common among children. Revisiting the music, performance styles, and visual art of the period, I found references to children’s play everywhere: in songs,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...into the real world; see Malinowski's seminal work, Argonauts of the Western Pacific [London: George Routledge and Sons, 1932]), fieldnotes have become material markers of doing ethnography. Fieldnotes are made...
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:...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...a site in nearby Ohatchee, the Janney Furnace, which supplied ammunition to the Confederate army. County funding supported erecting "the largest granite Civil War veteran's monument in the world."8Dan Whisenhunt,...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
Review To borrow a line from Joel and Ethan Coen's seminal slacker classic, The Big Lebowski, James Franco "draws a lotta water in this town."1 If you don't believe me,...
Birth Right
...of maternity care throughout the world. Many developed countries, including several in Western Europe, such as Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, use midwives as the primary birthing attendants...