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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Deep Ellum Blues

...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...Tennessee hills, however, the musical landscape was rapidly changing. Through a process Miller calls "segregating sound," intellectuals, writers, musicians, entrepreneurs, industrialists, and fans in the early twentieth century created a...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...part of a social project that encouraged political participation? What if citizens possessed use-rights over a sustaining landscape? Historians don't often write legislation. My attempt is consistent with the argument...