Dragon Con parade, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...(2019): 4–22. All these models of queer territory posit collective understandings of place that transcend the social boundaries of queer identity groups. All three authors also reference cruising, but offer...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...the annual Jazz and Heritage Festival markets itself through New Orleans-based music and cultural practices, the festival frequently offers meager salaries to local artists while generously compensating national musicians. Jazz...
Genres of Southern Literature
...user Lord_of_the_Flies. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. Southern literature is substantially recognizable as contingent upon certain identifiers: geographic, social, cultural, political, as well as historical and linguistic contingencies that...
Writing Appalachia
...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...proceed apace, but also central Appalachia, where the struggle to envision and create post-coal—and potentially "post-capitalist"—futures is ongoing. In his final chapter, Stoll offers a "thought experiment" in the form...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...singing tradition centered in Hoboken, Brantley County, Georgia. This is not a term local singers from the region use to describe their tradition, although—as described in this essay—some local singers...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...Lewis recorded choral performances in Welsh miners' clubs, singing at pubs, and informal song swaps between Appalachian and Welsh singers. Lewis's time in Wales also facilitated in-person cultural exchange, represented...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...by women and children. A giant, inflatable Mother Jones stands at a rally for union members, Brookwood, Alabama, August 4, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of William Thornton, AL.com. Truth...