Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
“Popular Music, Gentrification, and the Future of Atlanta’s Cabbagetown" Atlanta’s Cabbagetown neighborhood grew up around the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill, which opened in 1881 and operated for nearly a century. It was home to Fiddlin’ John Carson, whose 1923 … Read more
For our 2019 Sonic South listening room, In Sickness & In Health, we're featuring short audio docs from the top five finalists of our recent audio competition. Producers were asked to follow a few rules, including choosing interviews with southerners … Read more
In 1988, Lumbee Indian and attorney Julian Pierce was vying to become Superior Court Judge of Robeson County. Were he to win, he would become the first minority person to occupy the judge’s bench in this distinct minority-majority rural county. … Read more
The Sonic South (Winter 2021) Guest Editor: Regina N. Bradley (Kennesaw State University) Deadline for Submissions: February 22, 2021 Southern Cultures encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for The Sonic South, to be published Winter 2021. Sound provides a dynamic lens into the South’s layered … Read more