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Alice Randall

About

Alice Randall is the author of Black Bottom Saints (Amistad), now out in paperback. She is a professor and writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University, where her courses include Black Country, Country Lyric in American Culture, and Black Detroit. She hosts the Black Bottom Saints podcast, which is a weekly whirl of music, politics, and cocktails, and helped curate the Black Bottom Saints playlist on Spotify. You can follow her on Instagram @msalicerandall.

Articles

Issue 67, Winter 2009

Linda Martell’s “Color Him Father”

“Linda Martell effectively directs, not pleads, not suggests.”

By Alice Randall

The Gritty South

By Alice Randall
Issue 111, Winter 2020

The Way They Strut

But now is a time of reckoning. It is a time for reclaiming Black art aesthetics and acclaiming lost, erased, and overlooked Black artists, who daily and historically endured emotional, physical, and...

By Alice Randall
Issue 112, Spring 2021

Food Is Us

Fortunate are we who with family and friends cook, serve, eat, then clean.

By Alice Randall
Issue 115, Winter 2021

Music from the Magic Box

Ease was one part of the pleasure and disruption; a sense of pride in Black artistry was another.

By Alice Randall