Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...price list. Dye transfer was the most expensive service offered. "I went straight up there to look," he remembered years later, "and everything I saw was commercial work, like pictures...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...were Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and some lesser-known denizens of the "outlaw" wing of country music. Ku Klux Klansman Raymond Cranford, Black Panther Bobby Seale, journalist...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...makes it impossible to listen to this music without wanting to tap or spin or leap or sway like a toddler getting used to her feet. The visual style also...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...rest around the "only sleeping" face of his sister. He stood, watching, listening, living. Then they came, silently, dark-bellied clouds drifting up from the south, and the wind, increasing, swept...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...the gravestones leaned as if even the dead were listening. Three AM and the Stars Were Out When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
Introduction Doing fieldwork, public programs, and scholarly projects on expressive culture in Creole and other cultural settings in urban New Orleans and nearby French Louisiana over the last three decades...
Besieged Terrain
...could financially support the forest without destroying it. In his foreword to The Embattled Wilderness, Kentucky poet, novelist, and environmental activist Wendell Berry argues that in the current economic and...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...company, Terminus Films, in 2001. Anandi Salinas is a PhD candidate in religion at Emory and a training specialist with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Michael Page is lecturer...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...sold tickets to Lucina's Music concerts; they kept a list of apartments or houses for rent in the neighborhood; and then, of course, people would run into one another there....