If you missed the Mississippi Public Broadcasting broadcast of Longleaf: The Heart of Pine by Rex Jones back in the spring, you can now watch the full film online.
Watch LONGLEAF: THE HEART OF PINE by Rex Jones Online
Category: General News
Center Launches New Site for Documentary Media
The Mississippi Stories website, launched in July 2016, seeks to tell the complex story of Mississippi and Mississippians through multiple forms of documentary practice: film, photography, oral history, and sound. The website presents work by students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture, including Center institutes and partners Living Blues magazine, the Southern Documentary Project, and the Southern Foodways Alliance.
On Violence in the South: Nonviolent Protest
As a response to violence and the issues it raises, and how people have opposed it, the Center is running a series of entries from the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture volume on Violence, published in 2011. So far this week we’ve featured entries on Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jessie Daniel Ames, and antilynching activism. Today, an article by Charles Reagan Wilson on nonviolent protest.
SFA Take Reblog: A Call to Listen
We wanted to share a blog post, written by Ted Ownby, from the SFA’s site.
Alum Odie Lindsey Tours Southeast with New Book
Odie Lindsey reads from his new book of short stories, We Come to Our Senses, this summer at bookstores across the South. Odie, an alum of the Southern Studies MA program, also worked as an editor of the Mississippi Encyclopedia.
Remembering Pat Summitt through the Sports and Recreation Volume of the NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE
Published in 2011, the Sports volume of the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture featured a biographical essay on Pat Summitt, written by Dr. Charles Reagan Wilson.
A Preview of the Newest LIVING BLUES Magazine
The June 2016 issue of Living Blues features a cover story on guitarist and singer Barbara Lynn, best known for her 1962 hit You’ll Lose a Good Thing. From learning to play guitar in her youth to being sampled by rapper Lil’ Wayne, the Beaumont, Texas native looks back on her 54-year career.
LIVING BLUES Magazine Hires New Publication Manager
Melanie Young feels as though she’s come home since she’s been hired as the new publication manager of Living Blues magazine. She first began working with the magazine in 2009 as the circulation manager, and also had an editorial internship with the publication. Since then, she’s been a contributing writer for Living Blues and even wrote her Southern Studies master’s thesis on the magazine in 2012.
Shake ‘Em on Down, a Film by Joe York and Scott Barretta Selected for the Southern Circuit
Shake ‘Em on Down: The Blues According to Fred McDowell, a SouthDocs film by Joe York and Scott Barretta, has been selected as a 2016 Southern Circuit film.
Photos from Graduation
With apologies for the delay, here are some photos of the graduating Southern Studies class of 2016, including BA and MA students. Awards and class photo by Jimmy Thomas, photos in gowns by me.