From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Delta. The Gaither interview invites viewers to imagine them as representing a set of hill-country values—a love of hunting, closeness to nature, self-sufficiency, and cultural isolation—that Blevins argues have over...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...days—the government inspection steamer, Mississippi, and John Newton, and a couple of others: in New Orleans we'd see the Delta Queen or the Gordon C. Green. My father knew the...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...which got bookings and publicity out of the shock value. But as Athens groups like Pylon, Love Tractor, R.E.M., and Oh-OK followed the B’52’s in playing important new music clubs...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...a tradition. We heard blues on Beale Street and took part in lectures and discussions in Oxford, Mississippi, before visiting with racial reconciliation leaders in Jackson and the Delta. Ruth...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...salt marshes, also called "smooth cordgrass" or simply "Spartina." Ebb-tidal delta – Delta-shaped deposit of sediment formed on the seaward side of a coastal inlet as a result of strong ebb...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...to the United States (present day California, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming). The perceived "social inferiority" of the Mexican population—based on the theories...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...and by wooden telephone poles on the sides, which suggests that the screen may have been enlarged at some point in the past. In 1999, Hull's was dark throughout the...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
1926 Pharus Map of Berlin, Andrew Battista’s "Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: a Review of Hypercities," September 15, 2015. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. Beginnings How did you become...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...income, but then switched to the less cinematically interesting (and for some critics, less symmetrically ironic) work of a telephone lineman because it paid better and was less dangerous. As...