While DIY music culture has typically been credited as being pioneered by the white- and male-dominated punk and later hardcore scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, independent (or DIY) labels have been historic markers in the fight for creative and financial independence for artists of all genres—particularly Black artists—since as early as the 1920s.
ARTS & SOUL
This vertical seeks to capture how Black folks in and from the South engage with Arts. We dedicate this space to highlighting the multitude of ways Southerners create and dream, how we use craft and curiosity to aid in our survival in an anti-Black world. What is revealed—in poetry, illustration, and performance—is the Soul of the South.
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Kindred
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Poems for Black August
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Astrodome Feb 23, 2001
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Hurricane Season
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An Eye Whose Fleet Sings
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Perfect
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Rules on pronouns
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Soup
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Recipes
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Ain't Sh*t Changed
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Until Today
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PATIENCE IN THE BRAMBLE
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Burial Clothes
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Trans American Sonnet #9
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