New Website for Music Memory
...of thousands of recordings without commercial potential. The frontpage of Music Memory, an online music archive launched by Lance Ledbetter. This month, Ledbetter has launched Music Memory, his audio-centered spin on the...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...that has been approved elsewhere. Please follow the SoQ guidelines, which are available online. For consideration for this special issue, please submit original manuscripts by November 1, 2014. Email submissions...
Welcome!
...our website, updated our audio and video, and significantly expanded our readership. As an online journal working at the intersection of a number of scholarly disciplines, we find ourselves in...
On Fair Use
...an archive to turn to if copyright holders decide to challenge our use of their work. How do other online scholarly publications justify fair use of copyrighted materials? Just for...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...close. Increasingly, online sales and the growth of cattle factory farms are rendering live auctions irrelevant. While I am not from Searcy County, my connections to the place stretch back...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
Southern Spaces (https://southernspaces.org/), a peer-reviewed online academic journal, invites proposals for essays, photo essays, original short documentaries, and multimedia projects about the natural and built environments of the U.S. South...
Insistent Traces
Readings https://vimeo.com/134755182 Claudia Emerson reads the untitled opening from Pinion: An Elegy. View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134755765 Claudia Emerson reads the poem "Rent." View poem text here. https://vimeo.com/134756419 Claudia Emerson...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...someone to do with Faulkner on celluloid what has only been attempted on stage thus far. The theater troupe the Elevator Repair Service has staged a dramatic reading of the...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...