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Composers, Harmonica Players, and Meditation Music: Release of The...
Florence Price. Photo by G. Nelidoff, courtesy of Special Collections, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville The Butler Center for Arkansas Studies and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and...
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Singing Schools and the Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music
From the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture. Image by Mike Keckhaver. Last week’s column highlighted just a few of the entries from the recently released Encyclopedia of Arkansas Music....
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Pure Sound: Guy Lancaster on Discovering and Making Didgeridoos
Contributor Guy Lancaster talks music, meditation, land use, and anarchy in this beautiful piece about making and playing didgeridoos. Pure sound. That is how I would describe the characteristic drone...
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Flooding Rivers and Everyday Music: The Stories and Songs of Floy Bearden
This piece was originally published in the October 2013 issue of ABOUT the River Valley magazine and was written by Boiled Down Juice editor Meredith Martin-Moats. Photos of grandchildren and great...
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Pete Seeger 1919-2014
Pete Seeger with his banjo. Image from PBS. Our site crashed recently and we’re finally getting around to posting recent material. This Seed and the Story column originally ran in late January. Folk...
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Working Girl Blues and Coal Tattoos: Women in Labor Unions in the 1970s
Florence Reece, author of the song “Which Side Are You On?” Written by contributor Audra Butler, this post is taken from a larger essay on women’s involvement in the American labor movement of the...
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Monday Music: “People Talkin'” Hurray for the Riff Raff
From Notes from Mount Pleasant. It’s been a while, but we’re bringing back the Monday Music series. Each Monday will feature music new and old. We’d love to hear from you. What’s one of those songs you...
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Friday Video: “The Voice of the People,” KABF on NBC Nightly News, 1990.
In this week’s Friday Video we take a look at one of Arkansas’s most-loved community radio stations. Little Rock, Arkansas’s KABF radio , “the voice of the people,” has been serving the community for...
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Community Singings and Square Dances: Muzzled Oxen Part 3
If you’ve been reading this column lately you’re familiar with our regular features on the recently published book, Muzzled Oxen: Reaping Cotton and Sowing Hope in 1920s Arkansas. Published by Butler...
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“Ella’s Song”: The Importance of Coming Together as Caregivers
From the Ella Baker Institute For as long as I can remember I’ve always been curious about what came before. As a child, I used to go about my days wondering what stories and experiences once...
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