The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
..."listener" of complex national, regional, and local identifications has been a central, contested issue in radio scholarship. Susan Douglas describes the condition: [Radio's] technologically produced aurality allowed listeners to reformulate...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...an increase in virulence and general unhealthiness the further south one traveled. He was especially critical of the coastal areas from Maryland southward, reserving particular scorn for Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...renewal in all three major urban mosque locations indicates the flow of various racial, ethnic, and class groups in and around ummah spaces and represents the continued possibility for an...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...human sources but, rather, as more ethereal and "spiritual" traces. This interpretation allowed him to see his documentary work not as cultural theft but as a cultural gift to audiences...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...autobiographical. I mean, I stayed, I didn't quit, but yeah a lot of that is autobiographical. JAMES: Lace ends up dropping out of West Virginia University to return to the...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...of queering was central to utopian reimaginations of rural space in early women's liberation. Creating autonomous women's space and queer space was a central focus of women's communes and the...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...first capital became the largest of Georgia’s removal posts and headquarters for Cherokee removal from Georgia. By 1837 the name had changed to Fort Wool. Matthew Brady, Portrait of General...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...albums prior to their breakout. The most prominent, From Arkansas With Love, is full of original material, almost all written by Joyce Martin. The songs are structurally derivative and lyrically...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...mass-cultural melting pots. However, the transition from exclusive leisure spot to all-inclusive wonderland often did not happened as quickly, or as easily, or at all. Print advertisement for Lakewood Park,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...insistence that the subject of food equity allows readers to “identify social, political, and economic blind spots...at the core of social protest and power struggles” both past and present.3Bobby J....