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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts

...Courtesy of The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, digital ID loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsc.00338/. Folklorist Joshua Clegg Caffery's inaugural book, Traditional Music in Coastal Louisiana: The 1934 Lomax Recordings (2013),...

Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007

...post-apocalyptic industrial landscape. In many of these scenes,the members of Goodie Mob are joined by others, forming a multigenerational portrait of friends, colleagues, and family. These images of all-black social...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...from Bringing Down the Mountains The most divisive and controversial environmental issue facing Central Appalachia today is mountaintop removal surface coal mining. Obtaining coal by mountaintop removal (MTR) obliterates Appalachian...

"Aint that Something?"

...removal coal mining, an extreme version of the already devastating stripmining, was growing more prevalent. The novel foreshadows the intense fights between coal supporters and environmentalists that occurred as more...