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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...Gang: The Story of the National Barn Dance (University of Illinois Press, 2008), an important radio program from Chicago that was instrumental in the development of country music. Berry is...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...the country's premier sites for the purchase of fat hogs, ready for slaughter. But as the pork industry integrated vertically, fewer local farmers bred pigs, and eventually the auction house...

A Mess of Poke

...with us in the northeast Georgia mountains when I was in my early teens. She would take a grocery sack on her walks along the country roads near our house...

Mapping Souths

...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...life, Cash teamed with producer Rick Rubin for a series of critically-acclaimed studio albums. Along with new compositions and classic country interpretations, Rubin encouraged Cash to take up songs by...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

...western borders, prior to the Civil War. South Carolina's northwestern border in 1818 encompassed terrain formerly identified as "Cherokees Country" in the map from 1779. John Pinkerton, "United States of...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

.... . . intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country, it's appropriate to have policies that reflect that." Though the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws...