A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...the emboldened and blazing defender of all her sons and daughters." In Chicago, the Mother Jones Heritage Project is negotiating with the city to erect a statue of her downtown....
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...COVID-19 at the height of the pandemic. "Miking" in Local Dialects Loudspeaker announcements broadcasting messages on vaccination in Cox's Bazar city, Bangladesh. Photograph courtesy of Abdullah Al Kafi. Playing health...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
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...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...Diagram, Greensboro Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, and Third Coast. He has also published three pieces, Anniversary, A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama, and In the Queen City: A Reading...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...“Night Coming Tenderly, Black” The title of my review comes from a line in Saidiya Hartman’s Scenes of Subjection where she argues for the “opacity” of “black song” as a...
How I Shed My Skin
Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...