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Hutchins Lecture by Charles L. Hughes

Sonja Haynes Stone Center UNC-Chapel Hill, 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

“I Got What I Got The Hard Way”: Memphis, Muscle Shoals, and the Racial Politics of Southern Music The music of the South has long been a central metaphor for the region’s tumultuous racial history. Genres like country and soul … Read more

Tell About the South: Erich Nunn on Popular Music & Gentrification

Love House & Hutchins Forum 410 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

“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