Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...much interested in a performer's conscious engagement with modernity as he is with the "disorentiation" and "defamiliarization" of what he calls traditional music forms. Early country music located its power...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
An Unlikely Bohemia We are hope despite the times. R.E.M., "These Days" (1986) In Athens, Georgia, in the 1980s, if you were young and willing to live without much money,...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...with the Cloats we hear Constable Soner's story about them—he alludes to a dog involved but doesn't ever get specific—just says that whatever his wife witnessed, she couldn't get over....
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Cornwall, Connecticut, over the course of the 1810s and 1820s, as well as fluctuating numbers of Native youth at a residential school called Choctaw Academy in Blue Springs, Kentucky, opened...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...million dollars, and spent widely on mailers, door-to-door canvassing, phone banks and television ad buys. The leading opposition group, the Transportation Leadership Coalition, made do with little more than $14,000...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...his widow, Milberry Serena Martin (1808–1877), the apparent namesake of Milberry Place.4Copy of Robert Martin's will, Means Family Papers, Pinckney-Means Papers, South Carolina Historical Society. See also Robert Martin will...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...content. With the increasing number of multimedia articles and features, we standardized the organization of pieces to enhance accessibility. We shifted from pieces with numerous pages to scroll-down navigation. These...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...Blue Valley Boys newspaper advertisement, LaFollette, Tennessee, late 1960s. In this essay I place the Tennessee Jamboree within several contexts, organized toward a progressive narrowing of focus. I will start with...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...most such peasantries contended with the same looming threat: ever-expanding planter power and aspirations. As they creatively withstood or moved out of the plantations' way, they opened up and cultivated...