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...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...A play cannot contain all of that process, all of the lives wasted in the attempt to build a certain political-social project. What a play can do is sharpen the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...want you to do.”69Clarke Lee, stage remarks, Florida Folk Festival, 28 May 2000. D. Johnny Lee leads at the Silas Lee Memorial Sacred Harp Sing, Florida Folk Festival, White Springs,...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the shear — a football field length long machine that traverses the coal face shearing off the coal. There's just one individual and all that coal is spilling onto an...
Besieged Terrain
...the Robinson Forest they can reverse the history of destruction. That once people experience the forest, they will develop an ethical commitment to its survival, following Aldo Leopold's land ethic:...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...century to its crises of identity during the latter half of the century. He argues that southern gospel's cultural function, if not all of its professional and commercial infrastructure, developed...
Ebenezer Creek
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How I Shed My Skin
...the body, its desires, sexual norms, and deviances. Grappling with his own sense of difference, Jimmy was more willing than most to question dominant structures of white authority and racial...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...Trethewey Part 2: York discusses his relation to “the southern writer,” racial geography and history, industry and manufacturing in Alabama Part 3: York discusses family history and local reception of his work:...