Winter ‘99
VOLUME 5: NUMBER 4
Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
Killers Real and Imagined
by Doris Betts
Real-life tragedy is the genesis for lasting art when the murder of Medgar Evers sparks the muse of Eudora Welty.
Every Man Has Got the Right To Get Killed? The Civil War Narratives of Mary Johnston and Caroline Gordon
by Sarah E. Gardner
The vivid--and graphic--novels of two women authors usher in new views of the War and redefine a genre.
Rednecks, White Socks, and Pina Coladas? Country Music Ain't What it Used to Be . . . And It Really Never Was
by James C. Cobb
Does old Hank really spin in his grave each time Garth Brooks launches a new mega-tour?
The Plantation Tradition in an Urban Setting: The Case of the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, South Carolina
by John Michael Vlach
Rural architecture in a city environment imbues function and form with distinct meaning.
The Central Theme
by John Shelton Reed
The old cardinal test of a white southerner was a commitment to white supremacy.
Plus: a special update on the poll regarding preferences for "black" or "African American."
Mojo Productions, in association with Company Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Department of Communication Studies
Good Ol' Girls, the world premiere
reviewed by Shannon Ravenel
"She'll bring you casseroles and she'll kill you, too."
Richard J. Powell and Jock Reynolds's
To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Patti Carr Black's
Art in Mississippi: 1720-1980
reviewed by Dale Volberg Reed
"The art of the South has, until recently, been terra incognita."
Nancy C. Parrish's
Lee Smith, Annie Dillard, and the Hollins Group: A Genesis of Writers
reviewed by Amy Thompson McCandless
"It was like falling into a womb."
Jane S. Becker's
Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940
reviewed by Marla R. Miller
"We like the money we make, that's all."
Bryant Simon's
A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands
reviewed by Alex Lichtenstein
"It will no longer be possible to write off this group of white southerners as mere ignorant racists."
John M. Grammer's
Pastoral and Politics in the Old South
reviewed by Mark G. Malvasi
"They were wise innocents dwelling in an enduring, earthly paradise."
Bruce Adelson's
Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor-League Baseball in the American South
reviewed by Steven F. Lawson
"They saw themselves as heirs to Jackie Robinson's legacy."
Big Joe Williams and Friends, Going Back to Crawford, and: Black Appalachia String Bands, Songsters and Hoedowns
Music From the Lost Provinces: Old-Time Stringbands from Ashe County, North Carolina & Vicinity, 1927-1931, and: Charlie Poole and the North Carolina Ramblers, vols. 1-3
Black Texicans, Balladeers and Songsters of the Texas Frontier, and: Cowboy Songs, Ballads, and Cattle Calls
Taquachito Nights, Conjunto Music From South Texas
reviewed by Gavin James Campbell