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Evangelical Protestant groups have dominated religious life in the South since the early nineteenth century. Even as the conservative Protestantism typically associated with the South has risen in social and political prominence throughout the United States in recent decades, however, religious culture in the South itself has grown increasingly diverse. The region has seen a surge of immigration from other parts of the United States as well as from...
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What does "redneck" mean? What's going to happen to the southern accent? What makes black southerners laugh? What is "real" country music? These are the kinds of questions that pop up in this collection of notable essays from Southern Cultures, the journal of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Intentionally plural, Southern Cultures was founded in 1993 to present all sides of the American...
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Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions. Moving beyond the traditional view of folklore that situates it in historical practice and narrowly defined genres, entries in this volume demonstrate how folklife...
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization from a broad regional perspective. Looking beyond the post-World War II era and the emergence of the Sunbelt economy to examine recent and contemporary...
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The Special Roots Music Issue features:B.B. King on Bukka White's legacy;The Top Ten Folk Singers of All Time;Bob Dylan backstage in '63 and other rare photographic gems; Swamp bluesman Jimmy Anderson's first published interview in the U.S.; Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. the Allman Brothers; Pete, Peggy, & Mike--and all the rest that Charles Seeger gave to the world of music; Willie Lowery--musician, songwriting sensation, and humanitarian; Saxie Dowell, the...
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In the Spring 2010 issue of Southern Cultures, we float down the Redneck Riviera with Harvey H. Jackson III and along Roanoke Island with Bland Simpson, we cross the border with Susan Harbage Page, we examine gender and sexuality at the Citadel with Steve Estes, and we consider our sense of place with William W. Falk and Susan Webb.
Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press....
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In this special Southern Lives issue:* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.* Virginia Foster Durr opens her home to recently released inmates.* Michael McFee tours the Billy Graham Library.* Septima Poinsette Clark celebrates fellow Civil Rights pioneers.* Albert Murray goes on the record about Ralph Ellison's style.* Margaret Walker Alexander reveals her takes on Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker.... and much more.Southern...
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In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures:Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too);Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears-so they can pick blackberries;Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling;The experts redraw the boundaries of North and South;The Home of the Double-Headed Eagle rises amidst a line of shotgun shacks;and much more.Southern Cultures is published quarterly...
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Mason-Dixon Lines "Big Bone Lick," "Big Talk," and "Flush" poetry by Robert MorganRobert Morgan drives home a similar message with three poems. They address "memory" on the grandest scale- not merely familial or communal but epochal and even geologic." . . . for ten millennia, the bonesseemed wreckage from a mighty dream . . . "
11) Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus": From Southern Cultures, Volume 17: Number 4, Winter 2011: Music
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I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I've come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It's just like a preacher."The consummate Chiltin' Circuit performer talks women, finding his crossover audience, and masquerading as two different people on the same stage in one night.This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures.Southern Cultures is...
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Catfish and Homeby Josh EureAs a Little Leaguer, Josh Eure couldn't hit a lick, but the presence of local hero Catfish Hunter at all the games made even minor victories at the plate worth savoring."Jimmy 'Catfish' Hunter pitched for the Oakland Athletics and the New York Yankees and in 1987 was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame-all the while maintaining his small-town farming roots. He played every game with the shotgun pellets from a childhood...
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This introductory essay uses William Eggleston as the point of entry to preview the entire photography issue and includes striking photographs from Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Susan Harbage Page-as well as exploring the stunning work of Paul Kwilecki. "Photography in its finest and most decisive moments is about those tired or ignored or unseen parts of our lives, the mundane and worn paths that sit before us so firmly that we cease...
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Part essay, part memory-this piece finds the perfect form to explore the pictures that might rely most for meaning on the stories that accompany them: family photos. This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Photography Issue."'It is in fact hard to get the camera to tell the truth; yet it can be made to, in many ways and on many levels. Some of the best photographs we are ever likely to see are innocent domestic snapshots.'"...
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Record selling certainly had its glamorous moments; retailers could regale younger customers with stories of nightlife and even rubbing elbows with famous musicians and celebrities."African-American owned and operated record stores once provided vibrant venues for their communities, and close to 1000 of these shops operated in the South during their heyday.This article appears in the 2011 Music issue of Southern Cultures.Southern Cultures is published...
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Hot Springs, Arkansasby Keith MaillardWorld War II-era Hot Springs is the foundation for this author's story, a tale about his family's crumbling dynamics in troublesome times."'Well, of course I remember Pearl Harbor,' my mother says, the tone of her voice adding,What do you think I am, an idiot? She and my grandmother were working in the shop when they heard on the radio that the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor. She was five months pregnant with...
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Eggleston, the iconoclastic and colorful groundbreaker, imbues the mundane with vibrancy.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. "When the color photographs of William Eggleston first appeared at the Museum of Modern Art in 1976, the boldness of Eggleston's palette and his disregard for the conventions of black-and-white photography were shocking; nearly all the major critics were scornful, and Ansel...
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Voices from the Southern Oral History Program Mountain FeministHelen Matthews Lewis, Appalachian Studies, and the Long Women's Movementfrom an interview by Jessica Wilkersoncompiled and introduced by Jessica Wilkerson and David P. ClineThe "Grandmother of Appalachian Studies" reveals the parallels between the Civil Rights and Women's movements, as well as her highly ambivalent feelings about her own marriage-and much more."They didn't take us to jail....
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Offering a broad, up-to-date reference to the long history and cultural legacy of education in the American South, this timely volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture surveys educational developments, practices, institutions, and politics from the colonial era to the present. With over 130 articles, this book covers key topics in education, including academic freedom; the effects of urbanization on segregation, desegregation, and resegregation;...
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This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examines how mass media have shaped popular perceptions of the South--and how the South has shaped the history of mass media. An introductory overview by Allison Graham and Sharon Monteith is followed by 40 thematic essays and 132 topical articles that examine major trends and seminal moments in film, television, radio, press, and Internet history. Among topics explored are the southern media...