Listservs and Newsgroups
Subscribing to a listserv or entering a newsgroup is a great way to meet other people with similar interests. You can post questions when you need an expert's answer (though you might want to double check their answer if you haven't gotten to know the people in the group yet!), discuss issues of interest, and just get immersed in the hot issue of the subject at hand.

Newsgroups may be accessed using a newsgroup viewer (such as Netscape); listservs send email to you. To learn more about the listservs and newsgroups below, including how to subscribe, click on each hyperlinked name. This is just a cursory list. If you know of other relevent listservs and newsgroups you'd recommend, please email the webmaster.

alt.music.bluegrass (newsgroup on bluegrass music, primarily from fans' and performers' perspectives)
alt.music.country.classic (newsgroup on classic country music--1930's through 1960's)
bgrass-l@lsv.uky.edu (listserv on bluegrass music)
blues-l@lists.netspace.org (listserv on blues music)
country-l@listserv.Indiana.edu (listserv on country music)
rec.music.country.western (newsgroup on country music in general)
rec.music.country.old-time (newsgroup on old time music)

Research Centers
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Barnard Observatory
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
CSSC's stated goals include "promoting scholarship on every aspect of Southern culture, and encouraging public understanding of the South through publications, media productions, lectures, performances, and exhibitions." In addition, they are the home of the University of Mississippi's Southern Studies curriculum (which awards both B.A. and M.A.)

The Center for the Study of the American South
411 Hamilton Hall, CB #9127
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127
Its stated mission is "to encourage teaching about, research on, and service to the South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Center strives to deepen scholarly understanding of the South and to make the University’s best resources available to states and communities facing challenges within the region." In addition to supporting the Southern Studies curricula at UNC, CSAS also sponsors the Centering the South speaker series and Southern Research Circle, a monthly academic discussion group for UNC graduate students interested in the South.

UNC Curriculum in Folklore
According to its website, UNC Folklore "focuses on the study of creativity and aesthetic expression in everyday life, and on the political implications of that expression as it unfolds in the contested arenas of culture." The Curriculum offers an M.A.; a minor with the Ph.D. in a related field; a formal undergraduate minor; or the option for undergraduates to devise their own major in Folklore through the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies.

Southern Folklife Collection
For more information on the SFC, please see the description on the browsing page of this pathfinder.

last updated 11 March 2004 by Jessica F. Kem