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The Mid-South city built on a Mississippi River bluff, Memphis sits at the confluence of extraordinary musical streams: Anglo-Celtic upcountry song styles, fiddle bands, and gospel harmonies mingled with Delta blues, African American congregational and ...
Allen Tullos
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A killing over street turf during a jazz funeral raises the conundrum of New Orleans: how to keep valuable traditions alive while losing the legacies of violence.
Nick Spitzer
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In this 1999 video, children meet near a fountain in Savannah's Daffin Park.
Steve Bransford
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Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
Photographer David Wharton's forays into mid-South cities reveal intersections of old and new. As his images look through things (fences, barriers) that are close to the camera and toward things that are farther away, he offers a rough analogue, though ...
David Wharton
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Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
Lawrence Powell rediscovers Lyle Saxon, editor of the WPA Guide to New Orleans, and finds his urban scene startlingly recognizable.
Lawrence N. Powell
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A sketch of Atlanta's Krog Street Tunnel in late February 2008. On March 15, a tornado destroyed many homes in the adjacent Cabbagetown neighborhood.
Mary Battle
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Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
Folklorist Nick Spitzer, host of Public Radio International’s American Routes, discusses the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans musicians and craftspeople and argues for their central role in rebuilding the city.
Nick Spitzer
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Dr. Karyn Lacy presented "Constructing Racial Identities" at Emory University on March 2, 2005. In excerpts from her lecture, Prof. Lacy advances the idea of strategic assimilation as an way of understanding how contemporary middle-class Blacks are ...
Karyn Lacy
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This film documents an abandoned greenhouse. Built around 1919, it became part of the Georgia Mental Health Institute (GMHI), which operated between the years 1965 and 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Matt Miller
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Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs reviews Matt Sakakeeny's Roll With It: Brass Bands in the Streets of New Orleans (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013). Artwork by Willie Birch.
Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
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