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There is no news, scholarly, or artistic value in this link. Just a glorious example of fundamentalist funk, Holy...

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Sharlet: An essay of mine from last year's Oxford American Southern Music Annual, "The People's Singer," made the cut...

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Ashley Makar: I was late to my Egyptian baptism. Over twenty-four years and ten minutes late. It might...

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