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the newsletter of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture • Spring 2013 the university of mississippi Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference 2013 “Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas”

An impressive response to the call for papers for “Faulkner tablists will join the four invited keynote speakers and the and the Black Literatures of the Americas” has yielded 12 new featured panel of African American poets (both detailed in sessions featuring nearly three dozen speakers for the confer- earlier issues of the Register) to place Faulkner’s life and work ence, which will take place July 21–25, 2013, on the campus in conversation with a distinguished gallery of writers, art- of the University of Mississippi. These panelists and round- ists, and intellectual figures from African American and Afro- Caribbean culture, including Charles Waddell Chesnutt, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jean Toomer, painter William H. Johnson, Claude McKay, Delta bluesman Charley Patton, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, C.L.R. James, Ralph Ellison, Frantz Fanon, James Baldwin, Édouard Glissant, Marie Vieux- Chauvet, Toni Morrison, Randall Kenan, Suzan-Lori Parks, Edwidge Danticat, Edward P. Jones, Olympia Vernon, Natasha Trethewey, the editors and readers of Ebony magazine, and the writers and characters of the HBO series The Wire. In addi- tion, a roundtable scheduled for the opening afternoon of the conference will reflect on the legacies of the late Noel E. Polk as a teacher, critic, editor, collaborator, and longtime friend of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference. Also selected through the call for papers was keynote speaker Tim A. Ryan, associate professor of English at Northern Illinois University and author of Calls and Responses: The American Novel of Slavery since “Gone with the Wind.” Professor Ryan’s keynote address is entitled “‘Go to Jail about This Spoonful’: Narcotic Determinism and Human Agency in ‘That Evening Sun’ and the Delta Blues.” This will be Professor Ryan’s first appearance at Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha. Other speakers who will appear at the conference for the first time include Jacob Agner (University of Mississippi), Natalie Aikens (University of Mississippi), Maia Butler (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Rebecca Clark (University of California, Berkeley), Eurie Dahn (College of Saint Rose), Phillip Davis (China University of Petroleum),

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Published Quarterly by I write on the last day of spring classes and during the week when The Center for the Study of Southern Culture the last volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series arrived from the The University of Mississippi University of North Carolina Press. So I am writing while thinking about possi- Telephone: 662-915-5993 ble endings. As I was preparing the semester’s last lecture in my Southern History Fax: 662-915-5814 E-mail: [email protected] since 1900 class, my memory returned to a short article I wrote about 15 years ago. www.southernstudies.olemiss.edu That article, published in CrossRoads, a journal published on campus by English www.facebook.com/SouthernStudies and Southern Studies graduate students, encouraged Southern Studies scholars to get over what I saw as their fascination with using older questions to draw some- IN THIS ISSUE thing close to yes-or-no, continuity-or-change, end-of-the-South conclusions about Spring 2013 the contemporary South. The article complained that scholars who dealt with all 1. Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha sorts of past complexities in discussing race, farm life, politics, religion, literature, Conference 2013 music, and countless other topics had a tendency to drop the complexity as they 2. Director’s Column 3. The Filson Historical Society Fall got to the present. My 15-year-old article ended with a suggestion I still find about Conference to Focus on The New right: “What we do not need any more is writing that suggests an author knows what Encyclopedia of Southern Culture the ‘real’ South once was, and that it existed only in the past. Writers who tell us, 3. Living Blues News happily or sadly, that the South today just isn’t what it used to be are not likely to 4. Letting the Good Times Roll: Rituals acknowledge the power of whatever issues current and future Southerners choose Photographer Exhibits Work in to confront, whatever identities they choose to create, and whatever stories they Gammill Gallery 5. Mississippi Institute of Arts and choose to tell.” Letters Announces Awards Winners The article cheered for multiple narratives, variety, complexity, and open-ended- 6. Documenting Jackson’s Farish Street ness. On those notes, it is exciting to congratulate colleagues Charles Wilson, Jimmy District Thomas, Ann Abadie, and many others for completing the New Encyclopedia series. 7. Where Sociology and Southern There can be no central thesis to a 24-volume series of encyclopedias, but the series Studies Intersect: A Conversation with Sociologist Barbara Combs has the central goals of accuracy, thoroughness, inclusiveness, and openness to new 8. Southern Studies Students Win questions, ideas, and topics. Combining persistent themes with new approaches, it Awards, Take Bachelor and Master of is emblematic both that the series began with Religion (Volume 1) and ended with Arts Degrees Race (Volume 24) and that the titles of several volumes, Foodways, Folk Art, Gender, 9. Mississippi Arts Commission and Race, did not appear as sections in the 1989 Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Launches New Mississippi Blues Trail We have moved into the final editing stages of another long-term project, the Curriculum 10. Postdoctoral Fellow Angela Jill Mississippi Encyclopedia, a book that will go off to the University Press of Mississippi Cooley Bids Farewell sometime soon. Along with the same goals of accuracy, inclusiveness, and thorough- 11. Media and Documentary Projects ness, and along with the same absence of a thesis, the Mississippi Encyclopedia should, Producing Film about the Life of like the NESC, have the potential to surprise its readers. I enjoy pointing out that William Winter that the A-to-Z volume will likely begin with an entry on “Abdul Rauf, Mahmoud” 11. Contributors and end with the entry on “Ziglar, Zig.” The entry on Abdul Rauf will detail both his 11. Mark Your Calendars! basketball career and the controversies over his decision not to stand for the playing 12. Southern Studies Alumni: Tackling New Careers and New Graduate of the national anthem, and the entry on Ziglar will discuss his life as a motivation- Programs al speaker, and it’s my impression that those stories, rather than representing larger 14. Southern Studies and Anthropology themes, will strike most readers as unique and perhaps surprising. Professor Examines Cultural History: Toward the end of that 15-year-old CrossRoads article, I suggested it would be Jodi Skipper Studies African Diaspora, Rural Mardi Gras Traditions good to think of ongoing, new, and unique stories that are part of Southern life. 15. 2013 Mississippi Delta Cultural Tour With caveats that historians are generally lousy about thinking about the present 15. Oxford Conference for the Book and future, and that these stories were only a few among many and that readers 16. Southern Foodways Alliance Oral might suggest their own, the article suggested a few, some of which hold up better History Update than others. The article suggested that the story of reinterpreting the civil rights 17. 2013 Music of the South Conference movement would be an ongoing part of any narrative, and that seems right, as do the 19. Reading the South suggestions that the increasing popularity of Pentecostal and Holiness groups and Register Staff the growing importance of a multiethnic and especially Hispanic South were crucial stories. Two suggestions about directions in Southern writing now strike me as only Editor: James G. Thomas Jr. two among many directions. I’d love to take some credit for suggesting that “the sto- Graphic Designer: Susan Bauer Lee Mailing List Manager: Mary Hartwell Howorth ry of musicians with album collections” would become a popular theme, in part be- Lithographer: RR Donnelley Magazine Group cause the rise of musicians who learn from multiple, global sources rather than from The University complies with all applicable laws regard- older musicians and church traditions seems accurate, but more intriguingly because ing affirmative action and equal opportunity in all its ac- tivities and programs and does not discriminate against today’s music listeners have made a remarkable return to actual record albums. The anyone protected by law because of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, or status as a veteran or disabled veteran. continued on page 9 Page 2 Spring 2013 The Southern Register The Filson Living Blues News Spring has sprung here in Historical Society Mississippi. Daffodils are beam- ing yellow everywhere you turn Fall Conference and the plum and pear trees look like giant Q-Tips dotting the landscape by the thousands. to Focus on The In another rite of spring across the country, dozens of blues fes- New Encyclopedia of tivals kick off the season. This issue includes our annual 2013 Living Blues Festival Guide, fea- Southern Culture turing nearly 500 blues festi- On September 19, 20, and 21, 2013, the Filson Historical vals around the country. An Society in Louisville, Kentucky, will host the Fall 2013 Filson expanded list with even more Institute Public Conference. The topic of inquiry this year festivals (including many overseas) can be found at our website, will be “Understanding the 21st-century South through The www.livingblues.com. There are dozens of new festivals this sea- New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.” Planning is still in the son, and several older, established festivals have huge lineups this early stages, but the keynote address and lectures will focus on year. So get out your calendar, block off those vacation days, and subjects covered within the 24-volume series, produced by the check out some great blues. Center for the Study of Southern Culture. Managing editor of This issue’s cover artist, James Cotton, is the reigning god- the series, Jimmy Thomas, and Filson Historical Society dep- father of blues harmonica with a career stretching back to the uty director, Judy Miller, have begun planning the conference. late 1940s when he was taken under the wing of Sonny Boy The conference will begin with a Thursday evening re- Williamson (II) and hit the road with his band. After record- ception at the Filson Historical Society’s Ferguson Mansion, ing his first sides for Sun Records in 1953, Cotton moved to one of the finest examples of Beaux Arts style architecture in Chicago in 1954 to join the Muddy Waters Band. He stayed Louisville. The keynote lecture, delivered by Charles Reagan with the legendary band for 12 years, finally cutting ties in Wilson, will follow the reception. 1966 to relaunch his own solo career. “We’re extremely honored to have the New Encyclopedia as James Cotton blows the harp like a bellowing bull. His tone the focus of the Filson’s fall conference,” said Jimmy Thomas. shreds the notes and drives his music like the best lead gui- “The Filson Institute has a long history of hosting intriguing tar players. With his voice now silenced by the throat cancer conferences, and its impressive publically accessible archival he survived several years ago, the focus is on his real voice— holdings have provided valuable resource material for count- his harp—and what he can say with it. Our first cover story less texts on the Upper South and Ohio Valley.” Founded in on James Cotton in 26 years finds the venerable harp master 1884, the Filson Historical Society’s library includes over 1.8 reflecting on his career with characteristic charm and grace. million manuscript items. Durham, North Carolina’s John Dee Holeman is one of the Friday’s daylong program will multiple lectures, including last of the Bull City bluesmen who go back to the heyday of a presentation by Estill Pennington, Kentucky art historian that region’s vibrant blues scene. Rooted in the sounds of men and coeditor of the Art and Architecture volume of The New like Reverend Gary Davis and Blind Boy Fuller, Holeman is a Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. On Saturday Pennington direct link to a way of life that is fading fast. will lead a driving tour of historic architecture in Bourbon Charles “Big Daddy” Stallings’s roots lie in South Carolina, County, Kentucky, with a special focus upon the neoclassical but his career has taken off over the last 20 years since he style of Matthew Kennedy. Departure will be from Louisville moved to Maryland. A favorite in the Washington, D.C., that morning with a lunch stop at the Hopewell Museum and area, Stallings is breaking onto the national scene. tours of the Cane Ridge Shrine and the monumental Bourbon Last but not least, LB is proud to have founding editor Jim County Court House. O’Neal back in our pages again. After two years of health is- Registration will be required. Those interested in attend- sues, O’Neal is back on board with an expanded “BluEsoterica” ing will be able to register online at the Filson Historical column, filled with fascinating, new details about a number of Society’s website, www.filsonhistorical.org. Please visit the blues artists. Watch for more writing from Jim O’Neal in up- Filson Historical Society’s website or the Center’s website and coming issues. Facebook page for details as they develop. Don’t forget to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, This conference is made possible in part by the Thomas and watch for special offers, breaking blues news, and some Walker Bullitt Perpetual Trust. light-hearted fun with the blues. And remember, all print sub- scribers are welcome to sign up for a free digital subscription by just sending an e-mail to [email protected].

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The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 3 Letting the Good Times Roll Rituals Photographer Exhibits Work in Gammill Gallery Mark Alan Francis Mark Alan Francis is an associate professor Dragon *Con #2 and the photography program coordinator at Georgia Aquarium Pensacola State College. He has exhibited Atlanta, Georgia, 2011 his photography across the Southeast, and his exhibition, Rituals, is on display in the Gammill Gallery in Barnard Observatory until June. This is his first exhibition at the University of Mississippi. b When I was in sixth grade, my teacher asked me if I had a point on my behind that prevented me from sitting still. I always had to move to think—let’s move things around, move around things, get in, and look out—now we can see! Photographing events or festivals matches my attention span perfectly— crowded areas, but this all changes when it’s time to work. I like my photo- graphic venues packed with people: the larger the crowd the better the opportu- nity to capture that perfect image. I wish there was a secret for how to take great photographs and that I knew it! After all these years, the real secret is that it’s still a lot of work. I am of- ten asked how many pictures I take at a specific event. It’s not really about the number of images anymore, but the amount of time involved. I photograph fewer images these days, but allow for more time when photographing. This project required many hours of prepa- ration for efficient use of time as well San Fermin en Neuva Orleans as always planning for the worst while New Orleans, Louisiana, 2012 hoping for the best. Mark Alan Francis One significant change that I have lots of activity, lots of people, and a the midst of financial difficulties, thou- noticed is that people are much more reason to get in the middle of it all. sands of people were getting out and en- accommodating of cameras now than Rituals originated from my inter- joying these community events. My de- they were when I began photographing ests photographing regional events cision to photograph a certain festival in the late 1980s. Now that cameras are and festivals for two decades. In 2009 was mostly based on its eclectic qual- readily available, in many forms, people two things happened that impacted ity, degree of public participation, or are capturing images everywhere, all my work: I was awarded the Endowed unconventionality. the time. I can’t help but wonder if the Chair stipend to pursue this project, Once I selected a festival, all I needed camera is not as intrusive as it once was, and our nation began suffering from a was to physically get there and prepare making people more open and comfort- severe economic crisis. for the task, keeping in mind the two able with being photographed in their As I searched for interesting local most important components of photog- daily lives. festivals within my geographic reach, raphy: know where to point the camera I observed people from all over the and when to take the picture. Normally Mark Alan Francis United States having a great time. In I avoid lots of people, long lines, and

Page 4 Spring 2013 The Southern Register Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Announces Award Winners Southern Studies Claims Two

The Mississippi Institute of Arts and is a graduate of the Southern Studies Letters (MIAL) has announced its MA program. A cofounder of Thacker award winners for works first published, Mountain Radio and the only American shown, or performed in the year 2012. represented in the prestigious Cecil These winners are selected in a jur- Sharp Project in England, Herring is a ied competition by out-of-state judges previous winner in this category. Of her prominent in their respective fields, and new album, she states, “To me, Camilla the winners must have significant ties to is about grief and injustice. Deep love the state of Mississippi. Presentation of and hope. Perseverance. Heroes.” the awards will be made at the annual The winner of the music composition awards banquet on June 8, 2013, at the (classical) award is Steve Rouse, a native Hogarth Student Center on the campus of Moss Point, Mississippi, for his com- of Mississippi University for Women position Sonata for Violin and Piano. (MUW) in Columbus, Mississippi. Richard Ford is the winner of the fic- Master of ceremonies will be James B. tion award for his novel Canada. Ford, Borsig, MUW President. At 1:00 p.m. born in Jackson, Mississippi, has pub- on June 8, award winners will appear at lished six novels and four collections Poindexter Hall on the MUW campus of stories. He has won both the Pulitzer for readings and signings. David Wharton, winner of the photogra- Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Noel Polk Lifetime Achievement phy award for his book Small Town South Fiction. He is a previous winner of the Award winner is Patti Carr Black, a na- MIAL fiction award. tive of Sumner, Mississippi, and long- book “a slow, winding, visual delight of The winner of the nonfiction award time director of the State Historical detail and uniqueness.” Wharton re- is Joseph Crespino, professor of histo- Museum. Black, a graduate of the ceived his PhD from the University of ry and director of undergraduate studies Mississippi State College for Women Texas and lives in Oxford. at Emory University. Raised in Macon, (now MUW) and Emory University, The other winner connected to the Mississippi, Crespino wins the award began her career with the Mississippi Center is Caroline Herring, winner of with his book Strom Thurmond’s America, Department of Archives and History the music composition (contemporary) a political biography of the longtime (MDAH) after having worked for the award for her album Camilla. Herring U.S. Senator from South Carolina. Metropolitan Museum of Art and Time was born in Canton, Mississippi, and Chosen as winner of the poetry Inc. At MDAH she moved from librari- award is Catherine Pierce of Starkville, an to exhibitions designer to director of Mississippi, for her work The Girls of the State Historical Museum to direc- Peculiar. Pierce teaches and codirects the tor of the Museum Division. A founder creative writing program at Mississippi of New Stage Theater in Jackson and State University and is the author of two the Mississippi Museums Association, books of poetry and one chapbook. she is also the author of more than Lee Renninger of Gulfport, Mississippi, 20 publications and of many exhibi- wins the MIAL visual arts award for her tion catalogs. Her works include Art in work Botanica. A ceramic-based installa- Mississippi, 1720–1980, Touring Literary tion artist, Renninger is the recipient of Mississippi (with Marion Barnwell), and the Jane Crater Hiatt Fellowship and the Mules and Mississippi. Pollack-Krasner Grant. Two of this year’s award winners have Each winner in the juried categories direct ties to the Center for the Study receives a cash prize of $1,000 and a of Southern Culture. The first is David Mississippi-crafted gift. For information Wharton, photographer and director of on attending this year’s awards ban- documentary studies and assistant pro- quet, visit the MIAL website at www

fessor of Southern Studies. Wharton is Fahey Tom .ms-arts-letters.org. the winner of the photography award Caroline Herring, winner of the music for his book Small Town South. Rob composition (contemporary) award for Mary M. Thompson Amberg, photographer, calls Wharton’s her album Camilla

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Documenting Jackson’s Farish Street District Anna Hamilton The Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA) Left to right: Turry Flucker, has big plans for 2014. The year will mark Anna Hamilton, Kate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Hudson, John T. Edge, and Act of 1964, the milestone legislation Geno Lee, owner of the Big that desegregated commercial public Apple Inn in Jackson spaces. The SFA is partnering with Media and Documentary Projects to commemo- rate the event. Southern Studies graduate students Turry Flucker, Kate Hudson, and I are creating a multimedia documentary project that explores the complex conse- quences of that legislation. We have narrowed our focus to Jackson, Mississippi, for there is a striking side to the city’s civil rights story: the decline of the Farish Street district. In the first half of the 20th century, Farish Street flour- ished as Jackson’s vibrant and bustling African American community. Today, however, the district is but a shell of its our interviewees believe that African Our project will begin with the former self. Most businesses are defunct, Americans in 1964 welcomed the op- Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in—remem- and people have moved away. Signs have portunity to spend money on the white bered as one of the most violent of its faded, roofs have collapsed, and many side of town, and an unintended con- kind in the civil rights movement— buildings have altogether vanished. sequence was that black businesses suf- and progress to more recent historical We want to understand why. Our fered from neglect. We’ve become in- memory. Turry, Kate, and I are looking fieldwork is in its early stages, and we creasingly interested in the complicat- forward to spending part of this sum- are in the process of interviewing res- ed idea presented by Farish Street— mer in Jackson immersing ourselves in idents and business owners in Jackson that the effects of desegregation may this work. about the fate of Farish Street in the not have been as exclusively positive, wake of the Civil Rights Act. Many of as is conventionally believed. Anna Hamilton

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Page 6 Spring 2013 The Southern Register Where Sociology and Southern Studies Intersect A Conversation with Sociologist Barbara Combs

Barbara Combs is a bundle of Barbara Combs (right) We talked about a time when energy whose love of studying with Center director African Americans had to and watching people brought Ted Ownby cede the street to someone her to the role of sociologist. who was white. We look at After seven years of practicing gender and class dynamics law and many years teaching and symbols. It’s a wonderful college English in Georgia and class, and I love it. Florida, she decided to study Tell me about the book sociology and eventually made you just finished on the her way to Oxford. Combs is 1965 civil rights march a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, from Selma to Montgomery. whose family was original- Jimmy Thomas I saw a call for a series on crit- ly from Alabama. She earned ical moments in history, and, her bachelor’s and master’s as I said, my family was raised degrees at Xavier University in Alabama and my parents and a law degree at The Ohio moved to Selma after they re- State University. She said it was a dif- good or bad—human interactions and tired. I submitted a proposal suggesting ficult decision to change careers, but at what people do and become. that the Selma to Montgomery marches the same time she knew law was not her How does your background as a were a critical moment in history that true passion. She enrolled at Georgia lawyer inform your classes? For bet- ushered in the passage of the Voting State University and earned her doctor- ter or worse, I am truly literal, and I Rights Act, and it was accepted as part ate in sociology in 2010. Her disserta- think that’s my lawyer side. By nature, of the series. Then, in February the tion was entitled “The Ties That Bind: I am an optimistic person, so it adds a Supreme Court case of Shelby County, The Role of Place in Racial Identity level of realism that I might lack oth- Alabama, v. Eric H. Holder Jr. was being Formation, Social Cohesion, Accord, erwise. For example, we discuss the argued, which proves that this critical and Discord in Two Historic, Black rights that we hold so dearly, particu- moment in history resonates still today. Gentrifying Atlanta Neighborhoods.” larly as Americans, and then we think Recently you went to Atlanta for a She incorporates literature and histo- about how women had to fight for those neighborhood symposium hosted by ry into her teaching and has taught the rights and how African Americans had Emory University. What are you work- classes Introduction to Sociology, Race to fight for those rights. We think about ing on in relation to that? I presented and Ethnicity, Urban Sociology, and the legal aspects and arguments that with researchers from the University Delinquency. were advanced to obtain those rights of South Carolina, George Mason, At the end of a busy semester, Combs for certain populations. Spelman College, and Morehouse took a break to discuss her work, both You teach a class called Race, Place, College. The other researchers had read past and ongoing. and Space. What is the purpose of that my dissertation and asked me if I want- In your opinion, how do Southern class and what do the students learn? ed to collaborate on their research team Studies and sociology intersect? For The formal definition is that the course for an NSF grant. The grant proposes to me, because of my multidisciplinary explores the significance of race, place, do surveys in the two neighborhoods of background, I think there are innu- and space to modern identity forma- my dissertation—the West End and the merable intersections. I am interest- tion through multidisciplinary explo- Old Fourth Ward. Each of us has sepa- ed in places and how certain attitudes ration and analyzes the influence of so- rate research interests that we bring to happen in a place. And that is partic- cial, political, cultural, and historical the table in this larger project. If we get ularly what Southern Studies is about. factors on the development of real and the grant, it will be 1,200 quantitative Analyzing race in the context of place perceived racialized places and spaces, surveys, and I would be in charge of the deepens the analysis and enhances un- identities, and experiences in America. qualitative component that would be derstanding of a complex place. The so- This semester we looked at how people 40 in-depth interviews with those we ciological lens seems particularly appro- share or don’t share space on campus, select from the 1,200. priate because sociology is interested in even a space such as sidewalks, and we the role of society on human behavior tried to analyze the patterns that we saw Rebecca Lauck Cleary and how society might influence—for and how history helps to inform that.

The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 7 Southern Studies Students Win Awards, Take Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees Jimmy Thomas 2012–13 Awards

Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best Southern Studies MA the- sis or theses: Joseph Thompson, “‘I Won’t Be Reconstructed’: Good Old Rebels, Civil War Memory, and Popular Song,” and Kathryn Radishofski, “Last (Un)Fair Deal Goin’ Down: A Case Study of the Racial Perspectives and Projects of Blues Tourism Superintendents in Clarksdale, Mississippi”

Lucille and Motee Daniels Award for the best first-year paper: Meghan Holmes, “The Land of Cotton: Using ‘Dixie’ and Cotton to Imagine the South”

Gray Award for one of the two best un- dergraduate papers in Southern Studies: Caroline Gillespie, “Parallels in Plight: Graduation 2013, left to right, front row: Megan Holmes, Kate Kenwright, Joseph Finding Commonalities in African Thompson, Mary Beth (Mel) Lasseter; second row: Molly Loden, Gretchen Wood, American and Latino Experiences in Madelyn Duffey, Jillian McClure; back row: Melanie Young, Kathryn Radishofski, Post-Katrina New Orleans” Michele Bright, Steven Saunders, Chelsea Wright

Coterie Award for one of the two best undergraduate papers in Southern Theses Studies: Kate Kenwright, “Memphis Joseph Thompson, “‘I Won’t Be Carnival Traditions: Maintaining Michelle Bright, “Disciplining the Reconstructed’: Good Old Rebels, Identity in Changing Society” Body: Societal Controls of Gender, Civil War Memory, and Popular Song” Race, and Sexuality in Tennessee Peter Aschoff Award for the best paper Williams’s Delta Plays” Mary Beth (Mel) Lasseter, “Chasing on a topic in Southern music: Mary Beth That Ghost on Stage: The Haunted (Mel) Lasseter, “Chasing That Ghost Melanie Young, “A Historical Analysis Continent and Andrew Bird’s on Stage: The Haunted Continent and of Living Blues Magazine” Apocrypha” Andrew Bird’s Apocrypha” Judith Barlow Roberts, “C.C. Bryant: A Kathryn Radishofski, “Last (Un)Fair Ann Abadie Award for the Best Work Race Man Is What They Called Him” Deal Goin’ Down: A Case Study of in Documentary Media: Chelsea the Racial Perspectives and Projects Wright’s photography exhibit, Down Jacob Fussell, “Out of This World: of Blues Tourism Superintendents in Friendship: A Journey Home Hearing Indigenous and Immigrant Clarksdale, Mississippi” Music in the American South” Taylor Medal: Thomas Neal McMillin, Steven Saunders, “The Darker Angels undergraduate major Roy Button, “Growing Communities: of Our Nature: The South in American Urban Agricultural in Post-Katrina Horror Film” Phi Beta Kappa: Caroline Gillespie, un- New Orleans” dergraduate major Meghan Holmes, “Plants and Animals UM Graduate Student Achievement as Saviors and Invaders: Changing Award: Joseph Thompson Perspectives on Invasive Species in North America from the Colonial Era to the 21st Century”

Page 8 Spring 2013 The Southern Register Mississippi Arts Commission Launches New Mississippi Blues Trail Curriculum The Mississippi Arts Commission grade students studying Mississippi his- (MAC) launched its new Mississippi tory. However, teachers may modify Blues Trail Curriculum online this May. the lessons to accommodate students Mary Margaret White, MAC folk and through the 12th grade. traditional arts director and graduate The lessons employ an interdisciplin- of the UM Southern Studies master’s ary, arts-integrated approach, which program, is directing the project. The seeks to increase depth of understand- 18-lesson curriculum, along with an in- ing, incorporates multiple intelligenc- teractive, multimedia resource page, is es, and utilizes specific learning mo- available for free at www.msbluestrail dalities. Each lesson is aligned with .org/curriculum. Three lessons were de- established national standards, which veloped for each of the six core areas: help teachers share the skills needed music, meaning, cotton, transportation, for high student performance on stan- civil rights, and media. dardized tests. These standards include “As our state joins the nation in the the Mississippi Studies Framework for journey down a new economic path we social studies and music, the National call cultural heritage tourism, it is im- Standards for Music Education, and the perative that we share our state’s rich new Common Core Standards for writ- cultural history with the world, on the Curriculum designer Mark Malone ing, language, speaking, and listening. local level, and in classrooms across and sociologist Scott Barretta teamed up “Providing teachers with lesson plans Mississippi,” stated Sallye Killebrew, in- with the Mississippi Arts Commission’s that integrate the art of blues music with terim executive director of MAC. “This Folk and Traditional Arts Program the newly revised Mississippi Social curriculum guide will establish a sense to develop lesson plans that explore Studies Framework culture strand will of place within our communities, a civ- Mississippi history through the lens of bring our state’s arts and culture alive in ic pride in our citizenry, and provide a the Mississippi Blues Trail. The curricu- the classroom,” stated Limeul Eubanks, much needed resource for educators.” lum is designed specifically for fourth- education specialist.

continued from 2 Director’s Column picious two-party political system, the it’s always easy to call for more com- Nuevo South, the Global South, the plexity—but it could have taken a more final suggestion that the South was wit- high-tech Bible Belt South, the Souths constructive approach. I suspect part of nessing the deconstruction of the idea of Steel Magnolias, Girls Raised in the the motivation behind the article came of race as the region’s single, defining South, and Tyler Perry’s Madea, mag- from generational irritation at older division now seems only broadly accu- azine Souths from Southern Living to people who said or assumed that once rate but too simple and optimistic. Garden and Gun to Oxford American the last family-operated farms closed or My last lecture in this semester’s his- and beyond, the South of cultural tour- turned corporate, once the last “Whites tory class drew on those ideas. It be- ism offering both predictability and sur- Only” signs finally went down, and once gan by emphasizing the multiplicity of prise, the Souths of grandparents on the last writers who wanted to be like Southern stories in the past 40 years old porches or grandparents moving to Faulkner stopped trying to write like or so, noting that the declaration of beaches, the Souths of people who refer Faulkner, we would have nothing im- April as Confederate heritage month all questions to old traditions and people portant left to study. As a younger writer, by Mississippi’s governor represented who know the abbreviation “CSA” only then in my 30s, I wanted approaches that only one of them, and suggesting that as a reference to community-sponsored made sense to my own life. In my child- students consider what they might add agriculture, the postmodern South, the hood, growing up next to an interstate in to a list that would include the Sunbelt post-Southern South, and the South in Tennessee, thousands of strangers passed South, the Souths of Southern rock and which the term “Southern” is irritating by quickly every day, and those images Stax Records, the Dirty South, college- or irrelevant. In the end, my lecture en- likely encouraged me to study things as town alternative South, and the South couraged students not to let anyone, in- being always in motion. In retrospect, of contemporary country music, the low- cluding a historian like me, draw final instead of arguing against end-of-the- zoning, low-tax South, the South of grit conclusions about the best questions South thinking, one can add it to the list lit, the South of African American re- about the South but to keep raising their of topics worth studying, along with the turn migration, the South of continu- own questions. South of 24-volume encyclopedias. ing older problems, the South of newer On reflection, my old article might problems, the South of an angry and sus- have been a reasonable critique—heck, Ted Ownby

The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 9 Postdoctoral Fellow Angela Jill Cooley Bids Farewell Amy C. Evans I’ve spent the past two years in resi- dence at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture as a postdoctor- al fellow working with the Southern Foodways Alliance (SFA). My role is to contribute to the “study” portion of the SFA’s mission to “document, study, and celebrate the diverse foodways of the changing American South.” Over the past two years, I’ve had the opportunity to develop curriculum related to region- al foodways, collaborate with the SFA, and further my own research on restau- rant culture in the 20th-century South. During the fall semesters of 2012 and 2013, I taught the graduate course Foodways and Southern Culture, as- Angela Jill Cooley at signing texts that offer students a Barnard Observatory broad introduction to the literature of Southern foodways. Readings includ- ed history, fiction, cookbooks, memoir, work UM Southern Studies graduate choices. Among other things, I want and interdisciplinary academic scholar- students produce. to consider how Southern farmers ac- ship, as well as popular reading. My pri- In addition to teaching, I’ve spent cessed food, how problems of land ten- mary objective is to encourage students much of the last two years working on ure influenced food security, and how to recognize how foodways reflect the my own research. I’m interested in how food insecurity affected broader histori- cultural constructions of our region— various populations in the South access cal issues, such as civil rights. including race, class, gender, ethnicity, food, either in public spaces or in their I will be working on this new project and memory. In addition to Foodways private homes. My research also consid- as I embark on my next adventure as as- and Southern Culture, I taught two un- ers how race, gender, class, and ethnic- sistant professor of history at Minnesota dergraduate history courses on food and ity affect food access. My current book State University–Mankato. I’m excit- civil rights, one on the historical expe- manuscript considers these issues by ex- ed about my new opportunity but will riences of domestic servants, and an- amining Southern food culture in the miss the relationships I’ve developed other on the role of food in the civil context of segregation and civil rights with students, faculty, and staff here at rights movement. activism in public eating places. I hope Ole Miss. I rest assured in the knowl- I’ve grown as a professor by helping to publish this book soon. edge that nobody ever really leaves the graduate students pursue professional My work with the SFA has helped Center or the SFA. Thanks especial- opportunities. Several of our students me to reframe my next project using ly to the Center, SFA, and all of their have presented foodways-themed pa- the terms of the food justice move- supporters for making the past two pers at academic conferences, speak- ment. The contemporary food move- years possible and for prioritizing teach- ing about topics as diverse as commu- ment, which encourages local food and ing foodways as part of the Southern nity gardens in the Mississippi Delta sustainable systems, often neglects the Studies curriculum. Also thanks to my and fried foods at the Texas state fair. historical problems many Southern students and the friends I’ve met in I see these opportunities as essential farmers faced in sustaining their fam- Oxford and elsewhere for making this to a well-rounded graduate education. ilies with reliable and healthy food experience so rewarding. Students can develop their skills out- sources. My next research project will side the classroom, and the broader ac- explore the extent to which Southern Angela Jill Cooley ademic community sees the quality of farmers had sovereignty over their food

Page 10 Spring 2013 The Southern Register Media and Documentary Mark Your Projects Producing Film about Calendars! the Life of William Winter June 2013 The Media and Documentary Projects Center is producing a documentary film about Folk Art volume signing and the life and career of William Winter. The documentary, produced by Matthew celebration Graves and Andy Harper, is scheduled for release later this year in conjunction with Bottletree Bakery Governor Winter’s 90th birthday and the 30th anniversary of the passage of his Oxford, Mississippi signature Education Reform Act. Utilizing archival materials and interviews with Governor Winter, Elise Winter, Thad Cochran, Dick Molpus, Ray Mabus, Charles June 7, 2013 Overby, Pres. Bill Clinton, and others, the film will examine the life and career of Potlikker NYC at Blue Smoke one of Mississippi’s most progressive governors. New York, New York Media and Documentary Projects June 20–22, 2013 Summer Foodways Symposium Richmond, Virginia July 21–25, 2013 Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference 2013 “Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas” August 18, 2013 Wine Country Pig Picking Napa, California September 2013 2013 Gilder-Jordan Lecture in Southern History Former Mississippi governor William Winter on the set of a new documentary produced Walter Johnson, Lecturer by Media and Documentary Projects University of Mississippi September 12–13, 2013 Contributors Graduate Conference Brett J. Bonner is the editor of Living Blues magazine. “Women, Work, and Food” University of Mississippi Rebecca Lauck Cleary is a communications specialist in the Office of Media and Public Relations at the University of Mississippi. She received a BA in September 19–21, 2013 journalism from the University in 1997. Filson Historical Society Angela Jill Cooley is an adjunct assistant professor of Southern Studies. Fall Conference Anna Hamilton has recently completed her first year as a Southern Studies “Understanding the graduate student. She is a native of Saint Augustine, Florida, and graduated 21st-century South through from the New College of Florida with a degree in humanities. The New Encyclopedia of Ted Ownby, director of the Center, holds a joint appointment in Southern Southern Culture” Studies and history. Louisville, Kentucky Mary M. Thompson is a board member of the Center and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Clarksdale, Mississippi. October 4–6, 2013 16th Southern Foodways Jay Watson is a professor of English at the University of Mississippi and director of Symposium the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference. His publications include Forensic Fictions: The Lawyer Figure in Faulkner, Faulkner and Whiteness, and Reading for Oxford, Mississippi the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893–1985. *tickets go on sale mid-July

The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 11 Southern Studies Alumni Tackling New Careers and New Graduate Programs Molly McGehee Southern Studies alumni have been in Molly McGehee accepting her 2013 the news with all sorts of endeavors, South Carolina Independent Colleges from academic honors and new activ- and Universities Excellence in ity, to work in publishing, to new jobs, Teaching Award to contributions on campus. Among academics, Molly McGehee learned in April that she had been named Professor of the Year at Presbyterian College, which led to a 2013 South Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities Excellence in Teaching Award. McGehee, who earned her PhD at Emory, teaches Southern Studies and has sent multi- ple students to the Southern Studies MA program. Also in April, Eva Walton, who works for the Alabama Poverty Project in Birmingham, deliv- ered a paper, “Nothing Less Than an Activist: Marge Baroni, Catholicism, and the Natchez, Mississippi, Civil Memphis, and Kate Kenwright, going Katie Radishofski, the ethnomusicolo- Rights Movement” at the Historic into the historic preservation program gy program at Columbia University. Natchez Conference. Katy Vinroot at Tulane. Several new MA graduates In the publishing industry, Kirsten O’Brien is an assistant for special are headed to new graduate programs as Schofield is taking a new job in projects at the Center for the Study of well: Jillian McClure, the history pro- Charleston with History Press as the American South at the University gram at the University of Mississippi; the book editor for the American of North Carolina. Teah Hairston, the sociology program South. Duvall Osteen works at Numerous Southern Studies alum- at the University of Missouri; Joey Aragi Publishing in New York. In ni are heading into new graduate pro- Thompson, the history program at the Charlottesville, Jon Peede is publisher grams. Among them are Jacques De University of Virginia; Mel Lasseter, of Virginia Quarterly Review. Schuyler Marche, entering a program in health the American studies program at the Dickson works as prose editor of The administration at the University of University of North Carolina; and Economy, and Woody Skinner is fiction Leigha Bolton Katy Vinroot O’Brien Katy Vinroot O’Brien

Erin Boles at the United States Sports Academy

Page 12 Spring 2013 The Southern Register editor of mojo, an online literary magazine at Wichita State continued from 1 University. Emory PhD student Alan Pike is one of many Center alums to work for the journal Southern Spaces. Last Matthew Dischinger (Louisiana State University), T. Austin year, Paige Porter Fischer started a new website, Story Porter, Graham (Columbia University), Chad Jewett (University that tells “inspiring stories about inspiring people.” of Connecticut), Meredith Kelling (University of Missouri, Stan Gray is founder and executive producer of Dig South, St. Louis), Melanie Masterton (University of California, a three-day interactive event in Charleston in April that Riverside), Sharron Eve Sarthou (Rust College), Carrie brought together people involved in creative and exciting Helms Tippen (Texas Christian University), Stephanie Tsank uses of new media. Joyce Miller has a position as historian at (University of Iowa), and Dai Xiaoli (Chongqing University the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, and Elizabeth of Posts and Telecommunications). Taylor Barton has a new job at St. Martin’s Episcopal School Among those speakers making return appearances at the in Atlanta. Amanda Brown is working as a health industry at- conference are Ted Atkinson (Mississippi State University), torney in Nashville. In Mobile, Erin Boles works at the United James Carothers (University of Kansas), Joanna Davis- States Sports Academy as the coordinator of alumni affairs McElligatt (University of Louisiana, Lafayette), Dotty J. Dye and teaches history as an adjunct at Faulkner University. MA (Arizona State University), Doreen Fowler (University of alumna Shelly Ritter, executive director of the Delta Blues Kansas), Joseph Fruscione (George Washington University), Museum in Clarksdale, went to Washington, D.C., when the Richard Godden (University of California, Irvine), Lisa museum was one of ten to receive the National Medal for Hinrichsen (University of Arkansas), Andrew Leiter Museum and Library Service. (Lycoming College), Cheryl Lester (University of Kansas), Here on campus, Southern Studies students and alum- John Wharton Lowe (University of Georgia), Peter Lurie ni continue their involvement in numerous ways. The (University of Richmond), Thomas McHaney (Georgia Center is happy that alumnus Patrick McIntyre has joined State University, emeritus), Sascha Morrell (University of the Center Advisory Committee. Patrick is executive direc- New England [Australia]), Erin Penner (Asbury University), tor of the Tennessee Historical Commission in Nashville. Ben Robbins (Free University of Berlin), Jenna Sciuto Alumni Jennifer Bingo Gunter, now a graduate student at (Northeastern University), Lorie Watkins (William Carey the University of South Carolina, and musician Tyler Keith University), Theresa Towner (University of Texas, Dallas), were on a program on gospel music traditions at the Center’s Randall Wilhelm (Clemson University), and Donald M. Music of the South Conference in April. Bingo gave a talk, Kartiganer (University of Mississippi, emeritus), former direc- and Tyler showed Jesus Is My Rock, his documentary film on tor of the Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference. Lafayette County gospel musicians. Jesse Wright, reporter for Those planning to attend this summer’s conference may the Clarksdale Press Register, gave a paper about blues tourism wish to know that the Oxford Film Society will host a free in Clarksdale, and musicians Dent May and Jake Fussell were screening of The Long, Hot Summer as a “prekickoff” to on a panel called “Musicians Talking Music.” Alumnus and Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha on Friday, July 19, at 6:00 p.m. at Mississippi legislator Steve Holland took part in a panel on the Powerhouse Community Arts Center, 413 S. 14th Street, campus to note the opening of the Bill Miles Collection in Oxford. The 1958 film, directed by Martin Ritt and starring the J.D. Williams Library. Chelsea Wright had a photography Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Angela Lansbury, and exhibition in the Gammill Gallery in the spring, and Camilla Orson Welles, was adapted from Faulkner’s 1940 novel, The Aikin is one of several alumni to work for Living Blues. Hamlet. Newman stars as Ben Quick, an accused barn burn- As we celebrate the completion of the 24th and final vol- er and con man who arrives in a small Mississippi commu- ume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture series, we nity and quickly gets to know the richest family in town, the should note the contributions of many Southern Studies Varners. Southern film scholar Deborah Barker, associate pro- alumni, beginning with managing editor and Science and fessor of English at the University of Mississippi and coedi- Medicine volume editor Jimmy Thomas, the Violence volume tor of American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary, will give editor Amy Wood, and the Foodways volume editor John T. a brief introduction to the film and facilitate discussion after- Edge. The numerous alumni who wrote individual entries in- ward. Refreshments will be served. clude Katherine Huntoon in Folk Art, Teresa Parker Ferris and For registration and other conference information, visit the Maury Gortemiller in Art and Architecture, Beth Boyd and Faulkner & Yoknapatawpha Conference website at www.out- Maarten Zwiers in Social Class, Katie Radishofski in Science reach.olemiss.edu/events/faulkner or contact Jay Watson, di- and Medicine, Amy Schmidt and Hicks Wogan in Literature, rector, at [email protected]. Discount rates for the con- Wesley Loy in Myth, Manners, and Memory, Tyler Keith, Renna ference are available for groups of five or more students. Tuten, Sally Walburn, and Molly McGehee in Media, Miles Inexpensive dormitory housing is available for interested reg- Laseter and Odie Lindsey in Sports and Recreation, Novelette istrants. Contact Robert Fox at [email protected] for details. Brown in Violence, Amy Evans, Brooke Butler, Mary Margaret Miller, Kendra Myers, and Aimee Schmidt in Foodways, Franky Jay Watson Abbott, Mark Coltrain, Ellie Campbell, and Catherine Riggs in Music, and Mary Amelia Taylor in Education.

Ted Ownby

The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 13 Southern Studies and Anthropology Professor Examines Cultural History Jodi Skipper Studies African Diaspora, Rural Mardi Gras Traditions

Archaeology doesn’t just mean digging Another research project close to her in the dirt; it also means examining cul- roots is an examination of Mardi Gras tural history, something in which Jodi celebrations. The project entails docu- Skipper is immersed. Skipper, an as- menting local forms of expressive cul- sistant professor of anthropology and ture in order to better understand how Southern Studies, explores the inter- south-central Louisiana communities sections of public archaeology and cul- create and reinforce their African dia- tural heritage tourism. Her specialties sporic identities. include historic archaeology and other Skipper and David Wharton, UM di- forms of cultural resource management, rector of documentary studies and assistant African diaspora anthropology, muse- professor of Southern Studies, traveled to um and heritage studies, and the poli- Lafayette and St. Martinville, Louisiana. tics of cultural representations. “I made contact with the Lafayette Mardi Skipper is a collaborator with the Gras Festival Association, which is the African Scientific Research Institute, oldest historically black Mardi Gras as- or ASRI, in preparation for the 2013 sociation there, and we documented African Diaspora Heritage Trail Jodi Skipper the processes of their children’s pageant (ADHT) Conference, an internation- and adult ball, held in the Heymann al cultural tourism initiative that pro- Performing Arts Center,” Skipper said. motes socially conscious travel to sites ect that he initially proposed to the Each year, the theme surrounds King identified as relevant and important to community,” said Skipper, who worked Toussaint and Queen Suzanne. “When the global narrative of people and cul- as an unofficial consultant to begin I was told about their king and queen, ture of African descent. The ADHT a narrative about economic develop- that’s when I started to think about this Foundation seeks to establish heri- ment and how the cemetery site could large African diaspora connection, be- tage trails linking diaspora traditions in bring visitors to the area. “This proj- cause they are the famous Haitian rev- Africa, North America, South America, ect is a collaborative effort between the olutionary couple. I started to think and Central America, Bermuda, the ASRI folks, local members of the com- through and wonder why they would spe- Caribbean, Europe, and Canada by de- munity, tourism officials in St. Martin cifically choose those two,” Skipper said. veloping a network of collaborators who Parish, and members of the University Wharton and Skipper also documented a identify, build, finance, promote, and of Louisiana at Lafayette community.” community service parade at a local nurs- market cultural heritage destinations. The annual ADHT conference, which ing home and had the privilege of riding Skipper began by talking with David is planned for October 2013 in Lafayette, on a float in the Lafayette parade. Palmer, an archeologist at the University creates a unique and inspiring learning “On a larger scale, I started to think of Louisiana at Lafayette, which is locat- environment for those committed to the about how specifically not just the rural ed in her hometown. He told her that development of African diaspora heritage Mardi Gras, but how Mardi Gras in gen- ASRI had come down from Chicago in destinations. One of the proposed trail eral could complement a lot of what we order to do research about a slave ceme- sites is Promised Land, a small village in were thinking through in terms of tour- tery in Parks, Louisiana. “That rang a bell St. Martin Parish along the Bayou Teche. ism,” Skipper said. “I am not necessar- for me because my paternal grandmoth- The ADHT’s goal to tap into “the grow- ily thinking through economic develop- er is from Parks,” said Skipper. “I called ing cultural heritage market” aligns with ment, because I don’t necessarily think Jihad Muhammad, the man who founded Skipper’s effort to examine the history there is a need for more people to come to ASRI, and he told me that he had just in- and development of Promised Land. She the parades, but for people to know they terviewed my great aunt, so I realized my hopes members of the local community exist and also for them to know what the family was embedded in this project.” will start to think through how some of African diaspora heritage connections Muhammad is a medical illustrator, these broader international issues relate are to those specific parades. And there and he ultimately wanted to resurrect or to them. “I know they have a sense of an are several, if you think through some of reconstruct images of former enslaved African diaspora and what that means, the traditions and see how they histori- Africans by looking at the human re- but I don’t think they have a wide-rang- cally relate to things that were going on mains, specifically, their faces. “That is ing sense of how these connections can in Haiti at the same time.” not something that I as an archaeolo- be interesting to people, especially tour- gist traditionally do, but that’s the proj- ists,” she said. Rebecca Lauck Cleary

Page 14 Spring 2013 The Southern Register 2013 Mississippi Oxford Conference Delta Cultural Tour for the Book On March 17–20 Jimmy Thomas led a group of travelers The 20th Oxford Conference for the Book took place March across the Delta countryside once again. The tour explored 21–23. The program included readings, panel discussions, and the rich literary, historical, culinary, and musical heritage talks by more than 45 talented writers from across the nation.

of the Delta towns of Greenwood, Greenville, Clarksdale, Doug McLain Indianola, Winterville, Tutwiler, Rosedale, and Benoit. Jimmy Thomas

Center director Ted Ownby (left) moderates a panel on music, biography, and the global South, with Ben Sandmel (center) and Vladimir Alexandrov. Doug McLain

Left to right, John and Edna Garst with Jack Barbera atop Mound A at Winterville Mounds, just north of Greenville Jimmy Thomas

Charlie Mars, Ron Shapiro, and Richard Howorth enjoy the book signing. Andy Harper

(above) The group toured the historic Burrus House on Hollywood Plantation in Benoit, where Tennessee Williams’s screenplay Baby Doll (1956) was filmed. While there University of Mississippi film and literature scholar Jack Barbera gave a talk on the film and its fasci- nating connections to ethnic- Beth Ann Fennelly, moderator of the contemporary poetry read- ity in the Delta. ings and discussion (left) At the William Alexander Percy Memorial Library in Greenville, Marion 2014 Oxford Conference for the Book Barnwell gives a lecture on Walker Percy. March 27–29, 2014 Kate Hudson

The Southern Register Spring 2013 Page 15 Southern Foodways Alliance Oral History Update Sara Wood “It was almost like a shock. But a little bit at a time, you go to the grocery store and you buy ingredients to make the dishes you left behind. And then, slow- ly, you get in the habit of eating food from another culture.” —Stella Dikos Stella’s, Richmond, Virginia b The SFA’s programming theme for 2013 is “Women at Work.” It makes sense, then, that we sent women out into the field, working to collect the stories be- hind the food. Former SFA oral histo- ry intern Sara Wood just wrapped up an oral history project documenting fe- male entrepreneurship in Richmond, Virginia. She’ll join us there this June for our Summer Foodways Symposium, when Stella Dikos (right) with her daughter Katrina Giavos we’ll celebrate the women whose stories she gathered. Nicole Lang and Christophile Konstas, who made a pimento cheese view them all for a new project we’re film for the SFA in 2011, have produced calling Charleston Eats. Other News from the Oral another great documentary film for us. Kimber Thomas, a Mississippi na- History Front Entitled Boxed Lunch, it is a portrait tive and graduate student in African of Sally Bell’s Kitchen in Richmond. American studies at UCLA, also partic- Updating Old Oral History Projects The film will premiere at the Summer ipated in our oral history workshop last with New Media for SFA Website Symposium. year. Kimber is coming home to Jackson We are relaunching a new-and-im- Sherri Sheu, a graduate student in this summer to do some fieldwork for us proved SFA website this summer. In the American studies at the University of that will speak to the theme of “Women last decade we have added more than Texas, is heading to Arkansas this sum- at Work,” as well as to next year’s focus 700 oral history interviews to our on- mer to document pie. She participated on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. line archive. Technology has changed in our oral history workshop last year Amy Evans, our lead oral histori- dramatically, so we’re working to bring and has done fieldwork for our sister or- an, is currently working in collabora- everything into the 21st century. We are ganization Foodways Texas. tion with La Cocina, a San Francisco- also updating older content from our on- Heather Richie, a graduate student based organization whose mission is line archive with new media. in creative nonfiction at the University to cultivate low-income food entre- of the South (Sewanee), is document- preneurs. She’s gathering stories from 2013 Oral History Intern Selected ing female fried-chicken cooks in women who have gone through the La Shayne Leslie Figueroa is a doctoral her hometown of Charleston, South Cocina program and now operate suc- fellow in the food studies program at Carolina. This project is a holdover cessful food truck and catering business- New York University. Born and raised from our 2007 field trip to Charleston, es and whose backgrounds and culinary in Charleston, South Carolina, she re- when we celebrated some of these traditions represent the global South. ceived a BA in American studies from same women: Martha Lou Gadsden of Some of these women will be a part of Lafayette College and earned an MA Martha Lou’s, Albertha Grant’s daugh- the programming for our 16th Southern in humanities and social thought at ters at Bertha’s, and Charlotte Jenkins Foodways Symposium, “Women at New York University’s Draper Program. of Gullah Cuisine. Heather will inter- Work,” scheduled for October 4–6. Shayne’s current research focuses on

Page 16 Spring 2013 The Southern Register food and families during the postwar period in America and utilizes both ar- 2013 Music of the South chival materials and oral history inter- views. Her proposed dissertation topic is a social history of the first two decades Conference of the National School Lunch Program (1946–66). In addition to her academ- “Innovation and Experimental ic work, Shayne is also currently the administrator for the Taub Center for Music and the South” Israel Studies at NYU. Having grown On Wednesday and Thursday, April 3 Gaetano Catelli up in the Lowcountry, Shayne believes and 4, 2013, the Center hosted its annu- that mustard-based barbecue sauce is al Music of the South Conference, which the world’s perfect condiment. She will explored the theme of “Innovation and begin her internship with Amy Evans Experimental Music and the South.” in Oxford in July. The conference gathered graduate stu- dents, faculty, and independent scholars 2013 Oral History Workshop to Take who shared current research on the cul- Place in Oxford, May 28–31 ture, meaning, and practices surrounding Eleven students from around the coun- try will visit Oxford this May to partici- pate in Amy Evans’s four-day oral histo- Filmmaker Tyler Keith discusses his ry workshop. Edward Lee of Louisville, documentary film, Jesus Is My Rock. Kentucky, continues to fund two diver- sity scholarships. One of the recipients is Karen Senega, a PhD candidate in music in and from the American South. history at Mississippi State University. Presentations examined Southern re- Karen’s dissertation is on the farm-raised cording studios, African American gos- catfish industry. The other scholarship pel quartets, aspects of the music scenes was awarded to Alexis Uwilingiyimana, in New Orleans and Clarksdale, the uni- a student at the Rollins School of Public fying quality of minstrelsy between the Health at Emory. He is an intern with North and the South after the Civil the Global Growers Network in Atlanta, War, music of the 1970s, and some con- where his fluency in Kirundi has proved temporary performers. On Wednesday invaluable for working with farmers from night, roots and blues artist Valerie June Burundi. performed at the Studio Theatre of the Gertrude Ford Center for the Performing Arts, and musical performances by Valerie Hockett Valerie Beth McKee and the Louisiana band Valerie June after her performance at the Gertrude Ford Center for the Performing Feufollet accompanied lectures and pan- Arts els throughout the conference.

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This Light of Ours: Activist the 1964 Democratic National Photographers of the Civil Convention; voter registration ac- Rights Movement. tivists walking the streets of south- ern towns. The third segment, enti- Photographs by Bob Adelman, tled “State and Local Terror,” docu- George Ballis, Bob Fitch, Bob ments the violence visited upon civ- Fletcher, Matt Herron, David il rights workers in many parts of the Prince, Herbert Randall, Maria South. We see burned-out churches, Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. police and mob brutality, the pain of Edited by Leslie G. Kelen. mourners at funerals. The final set of pictures comes from James Meredith’s Essays by Julian Bond, 1966 Memphis-to-Jackson “March Clayborne Carson, and Matt against Fear,” during which Meredith Herron. Text by Charles E. was shot and wounded from ambush Cobb Jr. Jackson: University in north Mississippi on the second Press of Mississippi, 2012. 251 magazines and newspapers. Their pic- day out. This caught the attention of pages. 151 black and white tures were often used as publicity for many of the movement’s most promi- the various organizations they worked nent figures, who decided to complete photographs. $45.00 cloth. or volunteered for—the Southern the march, despite encountering lo- With the publication of This Light of Christian Leadership Conference, cal and police opposition for much of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil the Congress of Racial Equality, the the remaining way. Rights Movement, the University Press Student Nonviolent Coordinating In addition to the photographs, of Mississippi continues its tradition Committee—and photographic pur- This Light of Ours also includes essays of adding to the historical record re- ists often dismissed their work as pro- by Julian Bond, Clayborne Carson, garding the struggle for racial justice paganda. Nonetheless, 50 years later and Charles E. Cobb—all deeply in- in the American South of the 1960s. their pictures form not only a record volved with the movement. There Extensive visual documentation of of events that were part of the strug- are also photographs and biographical the civil rights movement, much of gle but also what it must have felt like sketches of the nine photographers it done by the era’s most prominent to be present when they took place. (Matt Herron’s photo shows him be- photojournalists, already exists and The photographs are divided ing chased by an angry-looking white remains readily available today, but into four sequences. The first docu- man brandishing a billy club) and in- many of the 151 images reproduced ments some of the indignities that depth interviews with six of them. As here, made by photographers inside second-class citizenship imposed on we might expect, the photographers the movement, have a different, more most African Americans living in all have “war stories” to tell, many of intimate, feel to them. For the most the Deep South during the pre–civil them harrowing, but to a person, be- part, the nine photographers whose rights era: inadequate housing, ram- neath the excitement and adventure work appears in this volume were ac- shackle schools, little or no access to of it all, remains the conviction that tivists first and photographers second. healthcare, to name only a few. The they were doing something impor- They did not subscribe to abstract second focuses on various organiz- tant with their minds, eyes, and cam- notions of journalistic “objectivity” ing attempts across the region. Here eras—something that helped change or search for “balance” in their work. we see a variety of images: Dr. King the world. Some had professional backgrounds consulting with his circle of advisors It’s a stirring book. Some of the in photography, while others picked in a number of locations, both ur- photos are of events we’ve seen pic- up cameras for the first time as part ban and rural; overall-wearing farm- tures of before and thought we knew of their activism. They photographed ers filling out voter registration forms all about, but that rarely dilutes the what they felt most deeply about in county courthouses; members of book’s impact. Indeed, while the im- and did so with a passion largely ab- the Mississippi Democratic Freedom ages in This Light of Ours may not al- sent from the pages of the day’s news Party insisting on being seated at ways be the most dramatic or exciting

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pictures of any given event, in many tural interests: “I think Pete Seeger at ways they seem to reveal as much (or the time said it should be called Folk more) of the emotional weight of the Music Center or Folk Dance Center, photographer being present and in but I felt under the strict term ‘folk- the moment. And, as with any ef- lore,’ I had complete freedom. I could fective piece of documentary work, do whatever I wanted.” some portion of that sense of “being Likewise, Young was liberal polit- there” gets passed on to the reader/ ically without being an ideologue. viewer. All in all, This Light of Ours Possessing a dislike of communism is a valuable addition to the history rooted in his working-class upbring- of the civil rights movement. Every ing, Young told Irwin Silber, “I still library should have it on its shelves. hate you commies, but I’ll write for you,” when the latter asked him to David Wharton join the staff of Sing Out! magazine. Young’s column, entitled Frets and Frails, is presented here in its entire- The Conscience of the Folk ty. It largely consisted of brief no- Revival: The Writings of tations of various happenings both Israel “Izzy” Young. in the Village and in the greater folk music scene: births, marriag- Edited by Scott Barretta. es, deaths, arrivals, departures, per- Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow formances, group roster changes, Press, 2013. 300 pages. $75.00 quent contributor, Barretta met and the like. Besides providing a re- cloth. Young when he relocated to Sweden al-time account of the folk revival’s in 1992. Young himself has resid- lifespan, the sheer number of names In his introduction to the Swedish ed there since 1973, where he oper- Young listed in his column is a re- audio edition of Bob Dylan’s 2004 ates the Folklore Centrum and pro- minder that it involved many more memoir Chronicles, Volume One, the motes concerts of indigenous and in- than the handful of most famous fig- writer, folklore enthusiast, and pro- ternational folk music, much as he ures, rendering this a necessary refer- moter Israel “Izzy” Young states that did during the American folk revival ence volume of the musical and cul- “all I wanted in life” was “to be a part while living in his native New York. tural movement. of American folk music.” He was Young’s most famous association More engaging are Young’s refresh- specifically referring to the Folklore during those years was with Bob ingly blunt opinions on various is- Center, his Greenwich Village shop Dylan, who became a frequent visi- sues, which are scattered through- that served as a de facto headquarters tor to Young’s establishment soon af- out Frets and Frails. “American Blues of folk-related activity in New York ter arriving in the Village. Young also are being recognized in England and City from 1957 to 1973, which—as promoted Dylan’s first formal concert Europe while they are not encour- editor Scott Barretta points out— in New York City, held at Carnegie aged enough here—especially by placed Young at the heart of the na- Chapter Hall in 1961. Along with Folk Music Journals and Magazines,” tional folk revival as well. Both an Young’s own writings on Dylan— he wrote in the winter of 1959–60— active participant in and an astute fond, yet critical and clear-eyed a full decade before the founding of observer of the activity around him, in turns—the appendix includes Living Blues. He was particularly con- Young documented the scene in vari- Dylan’s handwritten manuscripts of cerned with matters of copyright: ous personal journals, self-published two unrecorded songs, “Go Away “Did you know that John Lomax, Sr. writings, and magazine columns You Bomb” and “Talking Folklore wrote ‘Goodnight, Irene?’” Young that Barretta has collected in The Center.” asked in his second Sing Out! col- Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Besides Jewish roots and a passion umn, and over the years he open- Writings of Israel “Izzy” Young, the for folk music, Young also shared with ly criticized those who recorded and latest edition in Scarecrow Press’s Dylan a refusal to be pigeonholed. copyrighted traditional songs with- American Folk Music and Folk Young’s own folk music initiation out properly crediting their source Musicians Series. came via his involvement with the or explaining their methodology. A blues writer and researcher fa- local folk dance community, and he In a paper entitled “Folk Music and miliar to longtime readers of Living chose the name “Folklore Center” for Copyright, Lomax and Leadbelly,” Blues as a former editor and fre- his business by virtue of his varied cul- written in the 1990s and includ-

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ed here, Young expanded upon this topic, calling for From Midnight clarification of the manner in which John and Alan to Guntown Lomax copyrighted songs recorded by Huddie “Lead True Crime Stories from a Federal Belly” Ledbetter. Prosecutor in Mississippi Young is quoted as saying that he has no plans to pub- By John Hailman lish an autobiography, but rather will “write short ‘sto- An absorbing behind-the-scenes look ries,’ from time to time, that are more like historical ac- at the world of a federal prosecutor, counts, and that feel good to me, sort of my mind ac- with equal parts humor and pity. $35 tively helping and encouraging me to write the way I like to.” This seems a shame, as Barretta notes in his preface the delight Young took in recounting his mem- Mississippi Hill ories of musicians such as Big Joe Williams, Robert Pete Country Blues 1967 Williams, and Reverend Gary Davis—stories that re- By George Mitchell main unpublished. Hopefully Young will commit these Over 100 black and white and more to print, but until then, The Conscience of the photos capturing the musical Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel “Izzy” Young is the discovery and the geniuses of definitive account of his folk revival experiences and Mississippi’s Hill Country blues. observations. $40 Melanie Young Out of the Shadow of Leprosy The Carville Letters and No Sympathy for the Devil: Christian Stories of the Landry Family Pop Music and the Transformation of By Claire Manes American Evangelicalism. A first-hand account of the trauma and impact on one By David W. Stowe. Chapel Hill: University family facing leprosy of North Carolina Press, 2011. 291 pages. $28 $37.50 cloth, $27.95 paper. Une Belle Maison In No Sympathy for the Devil, David W. Stowe asks us The Lombard Plantation House to follow him in mapping connections among poli- in New Orleans’s Bywater tics, evangelicalism, and popular music in the United By S. Frederick Starr An extraordinary look at States in the 1970s. To do this, Stowe suggests that the life, decay, and restoration we think in terms of what he calls “cultural fronts,” of a plantation home a concept he borrows from cultural historian Michael $30 Denning. It is helpful to think of cultural fronts in terms of weather fronts that respond to pressure sys- tems; Stowe spends considerable time demarcating the Second Line Rescue influences and pressures on musicians in the late 1960s Improvised Responses to and the 1970s. Katrina and Rita These influences and pressures, Stowe argues, were a Edited by Barry Jean Ancelet, part of life for most Americans. Perhaps the most con- Marcia Gaudet and Carl Lindahl vincing part of Stowe’s work is his illustration of the How beleaguered citizens created their own salvation when effects of the belief that an apocalypse was around the their institutions failed corner. Stowe portrays this belief as a main driver for $35 the cultural front that gave rise to the Jesus Movement in southern California, as well as various countercul- tural movements. As the music of the Jesus Movement Also available as Ebooks spread out of California and through the rest of the United States, it achieved a degree of crossover influ- www.upress.state.ms.us • 800-737-7788 ence with secular musicians as well as with the figures facebook.com/upmiss • twitter.com/upmiss that would soon form the core of the religious right,

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ticular evangelical front depends so heavily on individual experience, more time spent on audiences’ ex- perience would have been benefi- cial. In this vein, few direct connec- tions between the music, the poli- tics, and the religion seem to exist— Pat Robertson may have got his start with Christian radio stations on the East Coast by employing a disk jock- ey with ties to the Jesus Movement in southern California, but it is a stretch to directly connect this fact with the Reagan Revolution. Stowe shades in a picture that he has not drawn in full. Then again, this is not quite what Stowe sets out to do. Rather than leading to the Reagan Revolution connecting direct lines, Stowe’s in 1980. work here is more of a construction With straightforward prose, of a weather map, indicating the lo- Stowe makes his arguments pri- cations of systems of pressure and marily through analysis of second- where they converge and diverge. ary sources, though he also con- While the most effective portions ducts some interviews and offers of the book are about festivals, the criticism of some of the albums most interesting parts are about the and films that he discusses. His as- religious lives of ostensibly secular sertion that music is a social prac- musicians—Johnny Cash, Marvin tice that shapes culture and histo- Gaye, Al Green, and Bob Dylan’s ry is commendable, given the fre- born-again period in particular are quency with which people assume fascinating. Stowe’s commentary on that music cannot serve this func- the contributions of these and oth- tion. There is still some disconnect er musicians to the cultural front he between Stowe’s assertion and what describes is both interesting and po- he writes, however: the featured tentially useful for readers interest- players in Stowe’s analysis are in- ed in the religious affiliations and dividual musicians, politicians, and transformations of figures in 1970s church figures. While some statisti- popular music. cal analysis appears in the epilogue, As Stowe notes more than once, one might expect more focus on the the present situation of evangeli- experiences of evangelicalism’s tar- cal popular culture’s relationship to get audience. Simply making music the secular world is that of a sepa- and selling records is no guarantee rate, parallel universe, and increas- that the messages underlying the ing numbers of people are unaware social practice of music are widely of how this construction of a par- heard and understood. allel universe came to exist. In No This is why the most effective por- Sympathy for the Devil, David Stowe tions of the book are those describ- provides a useful look at the early ing events such as Explo ’72, where days of evangelical popular culture music, politics, and evangelical reli- that shows that the walls between gion overlap with descriptions of au- the secular and evangelical worlds dience experience and reactions. A are not thin, but nonexistent. cultural front without an audience is not sustainable, and when this par- M.E. Lasseter

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