Country Music Scholar
Video Part 2: Malone discusses enrolling at the University of Texas, the Austin folk revival, and his dissertation, Country Music USA Part 3: Malone discusses variation in country music style, contrasting the...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...procedural rules that give Democrats a strong voice in legislative debates." The North Carolina NAACP has organized a series of protests every Monday since April 29, 2013 in opposition to cuts in...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...they nor the "keywords" themselves are intended to approach taxonomic precision. For similar reasons, we have avoided—although some contributors have not—the term "New Southern Studies," which carries, at least implicitly,...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Art of the Unritual in the Greater Caribbean in its early formulation. Highly recommended for ecocritical scholars. Finally, because drama does not get its readerly due and most of...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...dead of night, the trains—carrying troops, carrying weapons, carrying perhaps the stuff of a once ordinary life—rolled by, measuring the fitful sleep of the 17,000 at Jerome and Rohwer. The...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...next to his breastplated body in the little car. He put his arm around me, as the Greeks do. On the first dip he laughed. On the first drop he...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...relatively close together when cutting the fabric, but the claim of "no waste in material" is not entirely accurate. Making a quilt can express thrift in a number of ways,...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...term to associate Sacred Harp singing with the authenticity, folkloricity, and exoticism that the term "southern" carries for audiences in the United States. Other singers explicitly associated the practices of...