The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...and constructed over the airwaves an idealized aural representation of a southern Appalachian small town's culture. Rural Radio The introduction of radio into the rural United States in the 1920s...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...violent hostility toward all minorities. As The Birmingham World, a black newspaper, asserted, "if such things are allowed to go unsolved when done against one minority group, the evil-doers become...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...provided evangelicals with melodies and messages that helped them find meaning and stability in a rapidly modernizing world. Harrison credits Aldine S. Kieffer, a former Confederate solider, and Ephraim Ruebush,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...is “a non-profit multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books.” The group’s substantial...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...world; as "invisible physical forces" on the "continuum of being," the simbi inhabit the natural world, just as elements of the natural world, such as rocks and springs, compose the...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...a way of looking at things in the world. In a documentary for BBC television, he remembered "I had been working down in Oxford or Holly Springs, [Mississippi,] one day,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...Survival and Struggle," in My Troubles Are Going to Have Trouble with Me: Everyday Trials and Triumphs of Women Workers, eds. Karen Brodkin Sacks and Dorothy Remy (New Brunswick: Rutgers...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...to the family. By some estimates, there are about fifteen hundred Bunker descendants today, spread throughout the world, although most of them have stayed close to their ancestral haunt in...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
..."bellies of the world," functioning at once as expelling guts and sheltering womb. See my Orphan Narratives for a discussion of Glissant's ambivalent bellies of the world: Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Rutgers University Press, 2011), 11. Black civilian on horseback, The Battle of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, 1886. Cyclorama painting by the American Panorama Company, photographed by Michael Page. The only Black...