Southern Cultures

Avett Brothers Headline 2011 Music Issue

Loving, Leaving, Liquor, and the Lord: Songs in the Southern Vernacular, the FREE CD, features the Avett Brothers, Doc and Merle Watson, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and many more great artists--old and new.

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For the Records: How African American Consumers and Music Retailers Created Commercial Public Space in the 1960s and 1970s South
by Joshua Clark Davis
"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."
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"The KISS Letter: An Encounter with Elvis
by Eugenia Dettelbach Wicker
with an introduction by Marcie Cohen Ferris
"The last time I kissed him he only had on half a shirt. He has a wonderful chest. I am really crazy about him now+have the funniest feeling in me, all over."
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Boss Jocks: How Corrupt Radio Practices Helped Make Jacksonville One of the Great Music Cities
by Michael Ray Fitzgerald
"Kickbacks from government vendors, jobs for cronies, sweetheart deals for contractors' were commonplace-‘It may have been the most corrupt city in America.'"
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Backstage Stories: Wonders, Relics, and a Beer Fridge
photographs by Daniel Coston
and tales from the artists themselves
"The headlining band were nasty rogues, hitting on freakishly skinny underage chicks while I heard it all half asleep."
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Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer-Plus"
interviewed by William R. Ferris
"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."

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"Redneck Woman" and the Gendered Poetics of Class Rebellion
by Nadine Hubbs
"In 2004 Gretchen Wilson exploded onto the country music scene with ‘Redneck Woman.' The blockbuster single led to the early release of her first CD and propelled it to triple platinum sales."

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"Country Music Is Wherever the Soul of a Country Music Fan Is": Opryland U.S.A and the Importance of Home in Country Music
by Jeremy Hill
"Nixon's visit (only five months before his resignation) was seen by national journalists and politicos to be a trip to one of the few places where he would still receive a warm reception, and it was quite warm indeed. Nixon took the stage, played two songs on the piano, and bantered with Roy Acuff."

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Poem with a Refrain from Charley Patton
poetry by Travis Smith
". . . and now the guitar's high note
sings what he can't sing. . ."

Johnny Cash and the Paradox of American Identity
by Leigh H. Edwards
reviewed by Jocelyn R. Neal
"Johnny Cash is considered by many the quintessential country singer, yet others who claim to loathe country music are fiercely loyal to him."

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