Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...begins, in the north, at Troup County in Georgia and Chambers County in Alabama and then runs southward through Lee, Russell, Barbour, Henry, and Dale Counties in Alabama and through...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...the Vévé signs of voudun and a kind of military coroner's occupation.”7Spitzer, Nick. E-mail correspondence, June 16, 2009. “Now each house bore runic signs in orange spray paint. . .”8Piazza,...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...the Past, Enduring the Present Following the Cuban Revolution (1953–1959), the Soviet Union's (USSR) agricultural imperatives drove the island toward state-run farms, marginalizing many family run operations. The breakup of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...76.1 50.0 % Change, 1990–2006 -9.5 -3.5 * Sources: US Census Bureau, "Demographic Profile Highlights," American FactFinder (Washington, DC, 2000), accessed January 16, 2011, http://factfinder.census.gov/legacy/aff_sunset.html. Data for United States; Columbia,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...streets and boulevards splayed out from the river’s curvature like so many bicycle spokes. Bending this strange terrain to the rules of geometry must have given surveyors fits. Douglas describes...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...In the still, a dancer performs at a "sissy shakedown" at Club Vibe, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2004. From there Miller hits the ground running, providing the reader with thorough accounts...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...Courtesy of Lewis Watts. The Katrina photography in New Orleans Suite is clear-eyed and nuanced: a flooded band room sitting empty, its brass instruments ruined; New Orleans police officers in...
New Website for Music Memory
In April 2012, Southern Spaces published an interview with Lance Ledbetter, founder of Dust-to-Digital Records, in which he discussed the operations of his Atlanta-based record label. During the interview, Ledbetter mentioned...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
Video and Essay Searcy County. A short video by Noam Osband, 2012. Searcy County is a sparsely populated area in the Ozark region on US Highway 65 between Little Rock,...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...the crowded streets of the most commercial towns, and its victims are less numerous than those of the bilious putrid fever, or typhus, which sometimes runs over [all of Europe]."14David...