African and European roots of southern culture: the 'central theme' revisited / Charles Joyner -- Seasons of nature, seasons of history: a reading of southern literature / Paul Binding -- 'I've got a right to sing the blues': Alice Walker's aesthetic / Maria Lauret -- L'Acadie retrouveĢe: the re-making of Cajun identity in southwestern Louisiana, 1968-1994 / Robert Lewis -- Living southern in Southern living / Diane Roberts -- The Academic Elvis / Simon Frith -- The Last rebel: southern rock and nostalgic continuities / Paul Wells -- 'Bringing the races closer'?: Black-oriented radio in the south and the civil rights movement / Brian Ward and Jenny Walker -- 'Shakin' your butt for the tourist': music's role in the identification and selling of New Orleans / Connie Atkinson -- Into the light: the whiteness of the south in The Birth of a nation / Richard Dyer -- The Birth of a nation and Within our gates: two tales of the American south / Jane Gaines -- Traditions and transformations: vernacular art from the Afro-Atlantic south -- Neogtiating differences: southern culture(s) now / Richard Gray
