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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[T]he work in this wonderful catalog comes from many perspectives, often grappling with the subtexts of race, religion, class, and loss. Curators and exhibition organizers Lash and Schoonmaker have assembled a marvelous group of artists, writers, curators, pundits, and musicians to address the question of Southern identity and the Southern experience, creating a grand pastiche of visual art, writing, and music. Covering touchstones such as Andy Warhol's appropriations of civil rights documentation and the classic lightning rod of polemic imagery, the Confederate battle flag, there is plenty of grist for controversy and a deep emotional well to plumb. A powerful collection and compelling guide to an outstanding exhibition. Well done." -- Dan McClure * Library Journal *
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Southern Accent is an important contribution to existing scholarship. Not only a bellwether for new approaches to thinking about the region within the context of contemporary art, it also provides a framework for considering it through the experiences of its most accomplished voices.
Southern Accent therefore stands as a testament to this particular place at a very specific moment in time.” -- Jennifer Jankauskas * Panorama *
Table of ContentsDirectors' Foreword / 12
Curators' Acknowledgments 14
What Do We Envision When We Talk about the South? / Miranda Lash 19
Southern Accent: The Sound of Seeing / Trevor Schoonmaker 55
South / Natasha Trethewey 77
Latinos and the North Carolina Landscape / Diego Camposeco 83
Riding the Soul Food Rickshaw / John T. Edge 87
Accents Inside My Head / Carter Foster 91
KEW ACM ALT / Kara Walker and Ari Marcopoulos 95
On Things Unseen / Tom Rankin 101
Porch and Drawl / Richard J. Powell 107
Southern Mountain Time / Jeff Whetstone 121
Womanish / Brittney Cooper 127
"Humming This Song Trying to Remember the Way Another One Goes": Intermedia Conversations in a Southern Vernacular / Brendan Greaves 137
Down Home on the Moon / Mark Anthony Neal 157
I Reckon / Harrison Haynes 165
The Three Great Alabama Icons / Patterson Hood 171
Soul Food / Fahamu Pecou 177
No Lonesome Road / Catherine Opie 183
Honky-Tonks and Hospices / Dario Robleto 187
Medicine / Mel Chin 191
The Fast-Talking, Knife-Throwing, Trouble-Making Motorcycle Legend and Naturalist, Jim Roche, Makes Some Damn Good Work / Bradley Sumrall 197
Field Bling / Ada Limón 203
Southern Accent Music Library / Brendan Greaves, Harrison Haynes, and Trevor Schoonmaker 205
Chronology of Southern Art and Scholarship / Andrew Hibbard 213
The First Southern Rim Experience / William Fagaly 221
Southern Accent Reading List / Miranda Lash 225
Exhibition Checklist 231
Reproduction Credits 260
Curator Biographies 268
Lenders to the Exhibition 269
Board Members 270
Museum Staff 271
