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

#598, Common Meter

...absent from the flesh,    And present Lord, with thee.   From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...

J-Mill on Regulating

...style, and others are masters of blending records, the boys in Miami have developed a concept known as 'regulating' or 'mic checkin'.' The concept entails playing a record and 'pulling'...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...him, he asked, "Who is playing the other guitar?" He darted and slurred, a syncopation, a waltz evolving to jig. By slowing the record down and listening, a phrase at...

Scarecrow

...sing. I'm not dumb, but I wish I were. A fool bothers the Father about a brain. Hear us, Lord. There is too much to pray. I am a mouthless...

Atchison newspaper

...will be referred to as barbarous savages, and that will be all. We will show our bristles. 'We will keep ourselves right with the record,' as the politicians say, and...

Prayer of the Backhanded

Not the palm, not the pear tree Switch, not the broomstick, Nor the closest extension Cord, not his braided belt, but God, Bless the back of my daddy's hand Which,...

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...by Republican Governor Rick Scott. While the reduction in early voting was enacted in order to prevent voter fraud, some African Americans in Florida feel that the changes target African...