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

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...The sounds of the place transfixed me, and I created a video piece that centers on the audio of this auction house.  About the Author Noam Osband is a filmmaker...

New Website for Music Memory

...of thousands of recordings without commercial potential. The frontpage of Music Memory, an online music archive launched by Lance Ledbetter. This month, Ledbetter has launched Music Memory, his audio-centered spin on the...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

..."The Restraints: Open and Hidden," Life Magazine, September 24, 1956, reproduced in Gordon Parks, 106. Parks took more than two-hundred photographs during the week he spent with the family. All...

Piedmont Blues

Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of  James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...

Failed Memory Exercise

...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana images

...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge.   Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...

"Little Switzerland"

...if you want to enjoy a thousand vernal pleasures, visit Little Switzerland." (Atlanta Constitution (April 27, 1890), p. 8.) Published: 15 January 2008 © 2008 Sarah Toton and Southern Spaces...

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...Greek revival graves near the center toward the back of the cemetery, through the light skinned white-Blacks on the near side of the cemetery road, a carriage's width I must...

Little Rock, Arkansas images

Little Rock, Arkansas: View from Pedestrian Bridge Seen from the La Harpe Boulevard pedestrian overpass are Arkansas's Old State Capitol (white building in center), the Peabody Hotel (left background), and...