Country Music Scholar
...His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music/American Music; Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music; and Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the Southern Working Class....
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...Lewis's "Going South Coming, North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee," and Jarod Roll's "'Out Yonder on the Road': Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...materials a geographic coordinate. And the website offers suggestions for use in K-12 classrooms. Robert E. Howe, #7, Yellowstone Falls and Headwaters of the East Fork of the Pigeon River,...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...they hold the ghost of the classical fieldnote. They're punctuated by experience rather than a strict chronology. They were written from memory—specifically, memory delimited by another person. These fieldnotes are...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
...engaged primarily with the categories we now know as sexuality, gender, class, race, and region. He is the author of Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (Chicago: University of...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...exclusively on class relations; in the context of coal camps, this includes analyzing the contradictory role of the household garden as a means to lower the cost of miners' and...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...dark as bright colors shatter around her like glass shards, and she remembers her sixth-grade science class, the gurgle of the aquarium at the back of the room that morning...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...of her slip was showing when he recorded the moment: "I didn't want to be mistaken for a servant. Dressing well made me feel first class. I wanted to set...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...United States and beyond. In 1875, F. N. Walker, a Spartanburg merchant, advertised that he had "just returned from the North with an attractive line of SEASONABLE GOODS bought at...