Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...connection over the telephone with a Middleton Place senior staff member, she decided to transfer it to the Middleton Place historic house museum near Charleston.16"Slave child torn from mom filled...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...transcend place, S-Town traps McLemore hopelessly and eternally in the place that he calls Shittown, Alabama. Although Reed ends the podcast with the story of McLemore's birth, S-Town buries him...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...place evokes and that help constitute it.14Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), 169. More than just feelings or emotions, such sense of place encompasses perceptions, assumptions, and...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...disappearing, ways of life that are threatened or transformed via industrialization, through what became known as "the Flaherty method": immersion in a place and among peoples, the crafting of narrative...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...ensued between the two unions had very little to do with what brought the demonstrators to the roadsides in the first place or what their demonstration has to say about...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Blue Valley Boys newspaper advertisement, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. In this essay I place the Tennessee Jamboree within several contexts, organized toward a progressive narrowing of focus. I will start with...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Rackensack Collection. Gristmills were commonplace in rural areas through the mid-twentieth century. They were a place of congregation where people told stories, went on short hunting expeditions, whittled and/or reminisced...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...