Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...“Georgia Harmonies: Celebrating Georgia Roots Music” opened at the Harris Arts Center in Calhoun, Georgia. The first of a dozen stops in Georgia of “New Harmonies” (a project of the...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...engaged. We could locate oysters and restore nineteenth-century reef names because food historians such as Robb Walsh found maps and newspaper stories from before the beds were scientifically coded and...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Roadside Architecture
...my interest. When I first arrived at the University of Mississippi in 1999, after sixteen years in Texas, I felt a pressing need to explore my new surroundings, both locally...
Work
...undergird your life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...The nine tracks include eight new songs written or co-written by Leavell and a re-visitation of "Jessica". In addition to musical recording and touring, Leavell manages his pine forested Charlane...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
Insistent Traces
...Pharoah. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The New England Review, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, TriQuarterly, and Crazyhorse. In 2008 Emerson was named Poet Laureate of Virginia. Her...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...miles away on the plains."1Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), 584....