Guest edited by Regina N. Bradley, the Sonic South Issue examines sound. From Deafness to silence to a tool of liberation, "Sound is where the South can be its most complicated and unapologetic," writes Bradley, "where it can boast its plurality and multiple communities."

Guest edited by Regina N. Bradley, the Sonic South Issue examines sound. From Deafness to silence to a tool of liberation, "Sound is where the South can be its most complicated and unapologetic," writes Bradley, "where it can boast its plurality and multiple communities."

Making Appalachian Mississippi. Imagining New Earths. Meeting at Two Rivers. Introducing the Winter Issue, guest edited by Zandria F. Robinson.

The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook includes all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and: The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic. Hawaiian steel guitar sways the Southern musical landscape. Poet Allen Ginsberg and bluesman James "Son" Thomas trade verses. Aussie Elvis impersonators keep the king alive. A U.K. scholar offers a new perspective on the study of the blues. Music pirates keep alive another tradition of bootlegging in the South. And much more. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.

In the Winter 2010 issue of Southern Cultures: Hal Crowther takes on H.L. Mencken (and Rush Limbaugh, too); Southerners battle hornets, rattlesnakes, and bears—so they can pick blackberries; Cowboy Troy crosses country music with hip-hop and says his belt buckle is bling; The experts redraw the boundaries of North and South; The Home of the Double-Headed Eagle rises amidst a line of shotgun shacks; and much more. Southern Cultures is published quarterly (spring, summer, fall, winter) by the University of North Carolina Press. The journal is sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for the Study of the American South.