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Cool-Water Music
by Joshua GuthmanMusic Issue Companion CD Track List 1| “Georgia Blues” CECIL BARFIELD 5:12 Art of Field Recording Volume II: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum, Dust-to-Digital, dust-digital.com 2| “Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down II” MURRY HAMMOND 3:46 I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way, Hummin’bird Records, myspace.com/murryhammond 3| “Must »
A Place Called The South
by Josh GuthmanMusic Issue Companion CD Track List 1| “A place called the South. . .” PETE SEEGER All Pete Seeger tracks are from William R. Ferris and Michael K. Honey’s 1989 San Francisco interview, courtesy of the William R. Ferris Collection #20367 in the Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-CH 2| “Barbry Ellen” LEAVES FROM OFF »
Passed Down Things
by Josh GuthmanMusic Issue Companion CD Track List 1| “‘A passed-down thing. . .’” B.B. KING 2:07 B.B. King at his home, 11 December 1974. All B.B. King tracks are courtesy of the William R. Ferris Collection #20367, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library, UNC-CH. 2| “Boogie Chillun” LOVEY WILLIAMS 2:14 Lovey Williams: guitar & vocals. Recorded in »
Vol. 12, No. 1: Spring 2006
spring // 2006
Essay
A Symbolic Project
Dorton Arena's Incomplete Legacies
by Burak ErdimAmong the expected turkey legs, fireworks, cotton candy, and Ferris wheels, Dorton Arena presents a familiar yet extraordinary sight at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds. Defined by its double hyperbolic arches, the building looks like an alien spaceship and brings to mind similarly shaped structures in sci-fi flicks or at equally iconic contemporary sites, such »
Essay
The Great-Granddaddy of White Nationalism
by Diane RobertsMark Twain hated Sir Walter Scott. He blamed Scott for the Civil War, accusing him of infecting the South with the “Sir Walter disease,” brought on by the “sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society.” Before the war and beyond the South’s defeat into the heyday of the »
Essay
Mildred Council
In Her Words
by Southern CulturesMildred “Mama Dip” Council passed away on May 20, 2018, at the age of 89. This is a condensed and edited excerpt from her oral history with the Southern Oral History Program, conducted by Donna Clark in 1994. Listen to the full interview at sohp.org. When a great oak falls to the earth, we feel »
Food
Pageants, Po’ Boys, and Pork on a Stick
Documenting the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival
by Emily Roehl, Jeannette Vaught“The Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival is not a ‘food festival’ in the way those events are often construed today, full of TV chefs and pop-up restaurants and brands and small bites and flavor innovations and swag.” Traveling down to the Gulf in Louisiana is like watching intricate sand patterns dissolve in the tide, land »
Film
Documentary Noise: The Soundscape of Barbara Kopple’s Harlan County, U.S.A.
by Grace Hale“In Harlan County, U.S.A., sound anchors, explains, and makes ‘authentic’ visual imagery compromised by the long history of documentary work in Appalachia.” The most shocking moment in Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) looks at first like an abstract painting. An organic shape, small and shiny and pinkish white, sits on a dark, rough ground. Even after »
Whose South?
by Charles Reagan Wilson“In the modern and postmodern worlds mass-produced artifacts reflect something of southern pleasures, aspirations, and humor.” On the occasion of my retirement from the University of Mississippi in 2014, I knew I had to talk about the South, the topic I have spent my career studying, pondering, writing about, and teaching. The more I thought »
The KISS Letter: An Encounter with Elvis
by Marcie Cohen Ferris, Eugenia Dettelbach Wicker“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.” Along with talent and energy, Elvis brought a sexual charisma into the music business that his colleagues did not possess. Certainly »