A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...out-of-the-way places.”1 James C. Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), 8. Scott adduces as examples of...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...spots" that change in intensity as events occur in specific sites. At the time, this seemed very new and different and it didn't seem complicated to identify characters, events, and...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...and blues—combined countercultural psychedelic and pastoral sensibilities with country's bucolic portraits and urban styles (including western swing and honky-tonk).1Jan Reid, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock (New York: Da Capo...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Rather than focus on musicians, promoters, and others associated with the music industry, Hopkinson draws upon interviews with an array of participants—including collectors of live recordings, urban wear designers, suburban...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...century forged a new cultural identity that combined elements of Italian, Spanish, and Cuban cultures. Ybor City's remarkable syncretism attracted photographers, historians, folklorists, and journalists seeking to document work, play,...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the end, we did our best to wrangle an honest character study. Top, one of Ryan Gainey's garden rooms, Decatur, Georgia, 2010. Bottom, Ryan Gainey, Decatur, Georgia, 2015. Screenshots from...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...known for its illusory 3D effect. Titled "Unloading a Cotton Steamboat, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A." (ca. 1890), the stereograph portrays several black men serving as stevedores on the New Orleans docks.3This stereograph is...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...tendency in the United States for new singers to "imagin[e] this locus of tradition . . . as 'southern,'" in Europe, teachers at Camp Fasola, and new European singers alike...
Writing Appalachia
...example, to examine the concept of the American frontier in the writings of New Yorker James Fenimore Cooper as well as in the southern account of Anne Newport Royall, or...