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MUSIC ON THE PORCH MARCH 2010 w/Hindugrass and Phil Cook of Megafaun Music on the Porch, our popular music performance series, is back!  Join us on the Center’s lawn March 25 from 5 to 7 pm as we explore southern music shaken and stirred. The March 25 event features Hindugrass and Phil…

March 1, 2010 – The Center for the Study of the American South, is pleased to welcome Sally Greene as its new associate director.  A 1996 graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. in English, she holds a J.D. from the George Washington University.  Dr. Greene brings to the position a…

MARCH 25, 2010: HINDUGRASS AND PHIL COOK (MEGAFAUN) The March 25 event features Hindugrass and Phil Cook from Megafaun.  Hindugrass blends music from Hindustani classical and bluegrass and comes up with a mix that is unique but still familiar. Phil Cook, from the indie-rock trio Megafaun, takes traditional instruments and uses them in…

“SOUTH: from Saxapahaw to Antarctica,” Paintings by Nerys Levy “Working on site using mixed water-based media on paper, I try to portray the forms and forces of nature: Polar landscapes and wildlife, Chinese and Russian rural and urban landscapes, North Carolina’s forests and rural landscapes, Alpine masses and glaciers, cloud…

PREORDER “GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE” HERE. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Illustrated with Ferris’s photographs of…

THANKS FOR COMING TO “MUSIC ON THE PORCH II!” PHOTOS, LINKS TO VIDEO CAN BE FOUND AT OUR FACEBOOK EVENT SITE AS WELL AS THE CSAS HOME PAGE. LOCAL MUSICIAN CONCERT AND CONVERSATION ON THE PORCH OF THE LOVE HOUSE AND HUTCHINS FORUM Center for the Study of the American South presents “Music…

APRIL 24, 2009: HEATHER MCENTIRE (BELLAFEA, UN DEUX TROIS), ADAM PRICE (HUNDRED AIR, THE MAYFLIES USA), ERIC ROEHRIG (ERIE CHOIR, SORRY ABOUT DRESDEN), AND LEE WATERS (WORK CLOTHES, LUD). MODERATED BY KATHERINE DOSS. The Center for the Study of the American South will again host an intimate, engaging late afternoon of…

The 2009 edition of our annual newletter was mailed out in mid-April. If you are currently a member of our mailing list and failed to receive yours, please let us know! [Download Now] GOING LEAN, GOING GREEN This year’s edition is the last newsletter the Center will print and mail to…

“Theater of War: The Pretend Villages of Iraq and Afghanistan,” Photos by Chris Sims Christopher Sims was born in Michigan and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. He has an undergraduate degree in history from Duke University, a master’s degree in visual communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,…

“Lower Ninth Ward,” Photos by John Rosenthal “I drove into the Ninth Ward a year and a half after Katrina left it in ruins. Friends of mine who had already been there told me the devastation was “unbelievable.” I wondered what that meant—unbelievable. My friends were wrong. The Ninth Ward,…