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

Country Music Scholar

...between “southern” and “American” music, addressing questions of authenticity and fusion Part 6: Malone discusses tensions between themes of rambling and rootedness in country music Part 7: Malone explores how contemporary country...

Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use

...Americans with Disabilities Act, and enable non-expressive uses like comprehensive word searches, text mining, and data analysis.  Baer's ruling represented a major victory for the HathiTrust, its affiliates, and fair...

"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place

...American Routes' Nick Spitzer interviews Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, and Patterson Hood, February 9, 2011. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/25905/hour1 Musically, over the last several years, the Truckers have been coming home more often....

The US South and the 2008 Election

...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...

The Place of Appalachia

...in Whitesburg, Kentucky, has creatively used its community radio station, film-making, and theater troupe to explore how poor, rural Appalachians and poor, inner-city African Americans have been pitted against each...

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,...

Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]

...would likely have made this number if she had envisioned this project from the start. Finally, although red fabrics appear in both the star and the crazy blocks, there is...