Category: SouthDocs

Documentaries to be Shown, Discussed at Wednesday’s Brown Bag

By on September 12th, 2016

Documentary work will be the theme of the Brown Bag Lecture for Wednesday, Sept. 14 at noon in Barnard Observatory. Several faculty and staff members of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture will discuss documentary photography, film, oral history, and audio recording and show examples of their work and teaching. Participants will include Becca Walton (Mississippi Stories), Rex Jones and Andy Harper (Southern Documentary Project), Sara Wood (Southern Foodways Alliance), and David Wharton (director, documentary studies).

First Center Documentary Workshop Introduces Filmmaking to Southern Studies Students

By on August 19th, 2016

First Center Documentary Workshop Introduces Filmmaking to Southern Studies Students The Center held its first Documentary Workshop for Southern Studies graduate students August 15-17. Over three days, incoming first years Rachel Childs and Victoria Deleone and second year Rebecca Lauck Cleary learned approaches to documentary fieldwork, how to compose and shoot an interview, and how …

SouthDocs Feature Length Films About Mississippi Available to View Online

By on August 3rd, 2016

Speaking of Mississippi Stories, we wanted to remind everyone that there are several feature length SouthDocs* films available to view online: Mississippi Innocence by Joe York, The Toughest Job: William Winter’s Mississippi by the Emmy-winning Matthew Graves, and Rebels: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Matthew Graves. Please share with friends, especially history teachers!

Center Launches New Site for Documentary Media

By on July 18th, 2016

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.

An Interview with Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton about Southern Music

By on June 16th, 2016

Blues musician Jerron “Blind Boy” Paxton was in town a few weeks ago to play a concert as part of the World Championship Old Time Piano Playing Contest, and Southern Studies graduate student Chris Colbeck sat down with Paxton to talk about southern music. Watch the interview below.

Symposium Speaker Karl Hagstrom Miller on Research Inspiration, Segregating Sound, and Multidisciplinarity

By on April 20th, 2016

Symposium Speaker Karl Hagstrom Miller on Research Inspiration, Segregating Sound, and Multidisciplinarity Southern Studies graduate student Chris Colbeck interviewed Music of the South Symposium speaker Karl Hagstrom Miller on April 6, 2016. Chris, whose own thesis project is on music, interviewed Miller as part of a series of Southern Documentary Project interviews with Center speakers. …

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