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The article discusses music piracy in the southern United States during the 1970s. The author describes the history of bootlegging alcohol in the southern U.S. and legislation against bootlegging is discussed. Special attention is paid to bootlegger Jerrold (Jerry) Pettus, and the legal aspects of sound recordings aimed at mimicking songs produced by other musicians are noted. Other topics include intellectual property and anti-monopoly laws and the connection between bootlegging and counterculture in the southern U.S.

The article discusses the influence of hip-hop music from the southern United States on music in Senegal. The music of hip-hop artist Akon and dance-pop musician Pape Ndiaye Thiopet is highlighted, and special attention is paid to the influence of southern hip-hop music on the Senegalese hip-hop group GOTAL. Other topics include Senagalese rapper Astou "Toussa" Gueye, the lyrics and aesthetics of southern hip-hop music, and Senegalese National Ballet percussionist Mor Thiam's integration of American jazz and Senegalese music.

An essay is presented, discussing a 1917 essay by U.S. journalist and social critic H. L. Mencken titled "The Sahara of the Bozart," a scathing denunciation of arts and culture in the U.S. South. Mencken's influence and his penchant for exaggeration are discussed, as are the aspects of Southern intellectual life and culture he overlooked.

The article explores how southern food in entwined with the culture, history, and traditions of the Southern States and is part of its cultural identity. Based on the findings of the Spring 1992 Southern Focus Polls conducted by the Center for the Study of the American South and the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science at the University of North Carolina, the author compares the attitudes towards food of people living in the South to those people who reside outside the Southern States, as well as between White Southerners and African American Southerners. Some of the food items asked about were: okra, chitlins, fried tomatoes, pork rind, sweet potato pie, catfish, boiled peanuts, and moon pie.