Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...(AntiGravity. Nov 2011)." New Orleans the Underground Guide, May 13, 2012, accessed December 19, 2014, http://michaelpatrickwelch.org/2012/05/13/music-rights-an-educated-opinion-on-new-orleans-noise-ordinances-antigravity-nov-2011/; Alex Woodward, "Autopsy of the Noise Ordinance," Gambit, May 13, 2014, accessed December 19,...
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...
Geography
...Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize and was named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...their city, he argues, the people making the choices were a mixture of Europeans, African and creole slaves, free blacks, and Native Americans. These groups lived together in New Orleans...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Black Issues Book Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Bum...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...a PhD student in the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts at Emory University. His research interests include twentieth-century southern culture, documentary film production, and NASCAR's impact on contemporary American culture....
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...a cultural backlash against the political gains of African Americans, women, and Chicanos at the state and national level. Mellard's account does not consider how the performance of machismo can...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...