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New Books by Southern Studies Faculty and Staff the the newsletter of the Center for the study of southern Culture • summer 2010 the university of mississippi New Books by Southern Studies Faculty and Staff our new books, all of them collab- word by Alton Brown. This work brings orative projects, are coming out together the recipes and ideas of thou- Fby Center faculty and friends in sands of people whose work and creativ- the next six months. In July, Faulkner’s ity provide the background for those Sexualities, edited by Annette Trefzer recipes. Also in the fall, the University and Ann Abadie, was published by the of North Carolina Press will publish University Press of Mississippi. Based Volume 16, Sports and Recreation, of The on the papers at the 2007 Faulkner and New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture Yoknapatawpha Conference, the book series with, as always, Charles Reagan presents a range of engaging ways to Wilson as general editor and Jimmy study, as Trefzer writes in the introduc- Thomas as managing editor. This vol- tion, “the sexuality of the author and the ume, edited by Harvey Jackson, revises sexuality of his texts.” In October, The and expands the original encyclopedia’s Southern Foodways Alliance Community section in numerous ways, and readers Cookbook hits shelves, coedited by Sara will first notice its dramatic cover pho- Roahen and John T. Edge, with a fore- tograph. And at the end of the year, Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee’s edited collection, American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, will come out in the New Southern Studies Series pub- lished by the University of Georgia Press. The introduction and essays will offer the latest and best ways to think about films made about the American South. By addressing literature, sexu- alities, sports and recreation, foodways, community, film, and imagination, the four books offer a way to start thinking about the range of work going on by the Center and its many friends. For more information about these books, see page 5. continued on page 5 the D IRECTOR ’ S C OLUMN The season-ending episode of Tremé, the 2010 television series about Published Quarterly by the neighborhood in New Orleans, showed an English professor reading Walker The Center for the Study of Southern Culture Percy’s The Moviegoer, a novel whose main character sees movies as more real and The University of Mississippi meaningful than the rest of his life. This kind of Southern cultural funhouse mir- Telephone: 662-915-5993 ror, with images bouncing from fiction to the movies to television, makes me think Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] about the various roles the media play in what we do here at the Center. www.olemiss.edu/depts/south Sometimes it seems that the Center and its alumni, students, staff, and faculty are in the news every day. Just this summer, we were able to cheer for alumna Caroline IN THIS ISSUE Herring and her appearance on Prairie Home Companion and for an impressive fea- Summer 2010 ture on alumnus and SFA filmmaker Joe York in The Atlantic. We cheer also for the 1 New Books by Southern Studies New York Times story that included a link to a student-made film from Southern Faculty and Staff Studies 534 and for the Chronicle of Higher Education story that criticized the direc- 2 Director’s Column tions of higher education but celebrated the University of Mississippi and especially 3 Living Blues News the Center. We read John T. Edge’s foodways pieces in the New York Times and have 4 Green & Brown Bag Talks: Fall 2010 begun listening to Sounds of the South, the Center-produced radio series airing on the 4 Gammill Gallery Exhibition Schedule stations of Mississippi Public Broadcasting. 5 Walter Anderson and World Literature All of those stories and programs reflect something important about what we want 6 Southern Studies Graduates and Awards to do in Southern Studies. Showing the range of Southern music and her ability 7 Alum Caroline Herring Appears on Prairie Home Companion to make something new from older material, on Prairie Home Companion Caroline 7 Alum Camp Best on Mascot Committee Herring sang a blues song, a gospel duet with Garrison Keillor, a country song from the 7 Sounds of the South on Public Radio Carter Family, and an original song about the artist Walter Anderson. The Sounds of 8 SST Students and Alums Engaged in the South series likewise tells stories of old and new Southern musicians both famous Oral History and Other Documentary and obscure. The Atlantic praised Joe York’s films for allowing their subjects to tell their Projects own stories, and one could say the same about the film students Meghan Leonard, 10 Mark Your Calendars! Eric Griffis, and Tyler Keith made about the Brown family’s dairy farm in Oxford. 11 Center’s Old Federal Road Project The Chronicle piece mentioned the work done under Chancellor Emeritus Robert Award Khayat: “Under his leadership the university reached into its past for different pieces 12 New Gilder-Jordan Speaker Series of the state’s history. Think Eudora Welty, William Faulkner, and Tennessee Williams. 13 Field School on Religious Music Ole Miss has a Center for the Study of Southern Culture that focuses on the art, lit- 14 F&Y 2011: “Faulkner and Geography” 14 Southern American Studies Meeting erature, music, and food of the region, black and white. Indeed, of all the flagship col- 14 Eudora Welty Awards leges we have visited, we have found Ole Miss the most appealing.” 15 Teaching in the Mississippi Delta While we applaud the media, we are also studying it. Thinking broadly about 16 Margaret Walker Alexander Center Southern Studies and the media, we should note that the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha 17 Reading the South: Reviews & Notes Conference this year was on “Faulkner and Film,” that Katie McKee and Deborah 22 Burke’s Book Store, South’s Oldest Barker’s University of Georgia Press collection on film in the South is coming out 23 Southern Foodways Alliance News early in 2011, and that the Media volume in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 26 MIAL Awards Gala series will go to the University of North Carolina Press this summer. 27 Southern Literary Trail Keeping up with the news through the media will almost certainly affect how and 28 2010 F&Y: “Faulkner and Film” what we study. The South is in the news, on the Internet, on television, in the mov- 29 2010 Faulkner Fringe Festival ies, every second. We watch news about the Gulf oil spill, its damage, and efforts to 30 Contributors address it, and the underwater footage of the spill itself is one of the most frequently 31 Tennessee Williams Festivities viewed sites on the Internet. Southern politicians seem always capable of making 32 Southern Culture Catalog Items the news, often for reasons they did not plan and would like to forget. And today’s 36 Address Section/Mailing List Form/ most powerful political figure from the South is likely Michelle Obama, and her ef- Friends Information and Form forts to encourage healthier eating have captured media attention. REGISTER STAFF It is no surprise that the South produces much of the country’s best music and con- Editor: Ann J. Abadie tinues to be a popular setting for movies. But it is notable that after several years of Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee relative neglect on television, the South has become the setting for some significant Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth television programs. The most watched television program in American history was Editorial Assistant: Sally Cassady Lyon the 2010 Super Bowl, and its only unique feature was the unlikely participation of Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group the New Orleans Saints. Louisiana is the setting for two new and unique television programs. Since 2008, True Blood has been the South’s show about vampires, and The University complies with all applicable laws regard- ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its ac- even if its recipe for plot development (when things get slow, just add werewolves) tivities and programs and does not discriminate against isn’t to my taste, it is an intriguing effort to mix conventional Southern images, anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran themes, and accents with a relentless series of surprises. Even more recently, Tremé or disabled veteran. offers a fascinating study of post-Katrina characters, all of them following their own Page 2 Summer 2010 The Southern Register passions, many of them involving music, food, rebuilding, and even the literature of Walker Percy. The television and movie Living Blues efforts of Atlanta’s Tyler Perry and the comic faux conserva- tism of South Carolina’s Steven Colbert raise many questions about region, respectability and morality, religion, family, pol- Celebrates Its 40th itics, and more. At the Center, what are our jobs? Sometimes our job is to Anniversary with a follow the media, studying things with a depth that many me- dia portrayals, moving so quickly, do not have. The issues Special Collector’s raised by the oil spill should be at the heart of thinking about the recent South. Did the region give away too much to en- tice businesses to invest in the region, and how do we search Issue for and define alternatives? How do Southern governments, In August Living Blues so long committed to low spending and so long suspicious of publishes its special 40th federal authority, deal with a solution that seems to need na- anniversary edition of tional and international responses? 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