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May 6, 2021 · Dirty South: Its Meaning and Influence. May 6, 2021. “Dirty South” is an expression that endearingly refers to the southern part of the United States—from Virginia to Florida, Texas, and the states in between—whose Black traditions and artistic expressions have shaped the culture of the region and the nation. The term describes an ...
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Aug 23, 2024 · The second thematic suite of THE DIRTY SOUTH concerns crime and policing in the rural South, specifically through re-assessing the story of Buford Pusser, a professional wrestler turned hardline, tough-on-crime sheriff whose story inspired the movie WALKING TALL. Where the movie depicts Pusser as a righteous force for good combatting the evils of corruption and gambling and more by any means ...
Location: São Paulo, Brazil. Credit: Text / Patty Gone. The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse, organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, investigates the aesthetic impulses of early 20th-century Black culture that have proved ubiquitous to the southern region of the United States.
Summary. The civil rights movement in the urban South transformed the political, economic, and cultural landscape of post–World War II America. Between 1955 and 1968, African Americans and their white allies relied on nonviolent direct action, political lobbying, litigation, and economic boycotts to dismantle the Jim Crow system.
Jun 13, 2008 · The essay centers on the concept of the "Dirty South" as a geographical imaginary that has affirmed, critiqued, and confounded perceived ideas of the South. As Miller explains of the "Dirty South": The concept of the Dirty South as elaborated by the Goodie Mob and other rappers and producers in several of the major cities of the South was complex, contradictory, and multidimensional.
The Dirty South exhibition, in a similar way, shines a light on Black Southern ingenuity by underscoring its foundations and transformations through sonic and visual legacies from the past century⎯emphasizing that the South has always had something to say. Featuring visual and musical objects from the 1920s to today, the exhibition ultimately renders visible the constant confluence of static ...
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Sep 9, 2024 · S outhern Hip-Hop (Southern Rap, or Dirty South) is a broad term for a regional genre of Hip Hop music that emerged in the Southern United States in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami. The birth of Southern Hip Hop was a reaction to the explosion of Hip Hop culture emanating from New York and Los Angeles in the 1980s.
