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

The Makers of the Sacred Harp

...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...

Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives

...Internationale Fototage 7 (Edition Panorama). His series of photographs, Spiritual Advisor to the World, will be exhibited at the Smithsonian's Anacostia Museum in 2008. Photographer Todd Bertolaet's Statement For me,...

Genres of Southern Literature

...Dave Smith, "There’s a Bird Hung Around My Neck: Observations on Contemporary Southern Poetry." Five Points 1 (1997): 115-142. Dave Smith, "Cornering the Southern Poem." Southern Review 30 (1994): 643-49....

Whiskey and Geography

...County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1882), 171, cited in Dunaway, 197. Whiskey was good for helping work, sickness, pain, as well as for making festivities more joyous. Many a...