Tag: Global South

Outback Elvis: Riding with the King in Parkes, Australia

Outback Elvis: Riding with the King in Parkes, Australia

Gretchen Wood
The Banjo

The Banjo

Michael McFee
Rufus Thomas, Man of the House of Happiness

Rufus Thomas, Man of the House of Happiness

Thomas Hackett
Trading Verses: James “Son Ford” Thomas and Allen Ginsberg

Trading Verses: James “Son Ford” Thomas and Allen Ginsberg

William R. Ferris
The New Masters of Eloquence: Southernness, Senegal, and Transatlantic Hip-Hop Mobilities

The New Masters of Eloquence: Southernness, Senegal, and Transatlantic Hip-Hop Mobilities

Ali Colleen Neff
Steelin’ the Slide: Hawai’i and the Birth of the Blues Guitar

Steelin’ the Slide: Hawai’i and the Birth of the Blues Guitar

John W. Troutman
Front Porch: Global Music

Front Porch: Global Music

Jocelyn R. Neal
Bottling Hell

Bottling Hell

Anna Hamilton

Datil peppers sun on five bushes by the pool in Mary Ellen Masters’s backyard next to Faver Dykes State Park—a wild, scrubby preserve in south St. Johns County, Florida. Masters, whose family has lived in the area for nearly six generations, is renowned for her seemingly masochistic love of the spicy, heirloom peppers (a variety of Capsicum chinense similar in heat to the habanero) that are endemic to St. Augustine, Florida. Each year, she cooks 130 gallons of Datil-infused Minor-can clam chowder for the St. Ambrose Catholic Church Fair in Elkton, Florida, garnering her the undisputed title “Queen of Chowder.”

Southern Borderlands

Southern Borderlands

Alex E. Chávez

"The strumming of stringed instruments booms out through the PA, elaborate fiddle melodies erupt, followed by the soaring voice of the poet-practitioner, embracing those present, scanning the scene before him . . . drifting, shaping, moving verses that elicit a chorus of gritos."

Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina

Home in a New Place: Making Laos in Morganton, North Carolina

Katy Clune
Traveling Shoes

Traveling Shoes

Aaron Smithers
Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II by Richard Pells (Review)

Not Like Us: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II by Richard Pells (Review)

Richard H. King