{"id":16611,"date":"2023-12-13T10:54:18","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/?p=16611"},"modified":"2023-12-13T10:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T18:54:20","slug":"vibe-of-the-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/2023\/12\/13\/vibe-of-the-south\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vibe of the South"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-hero \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-hero\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n<div class=\"inner-wrapper\">\n          \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            data-src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-768x432.jpg\"\n          data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-768x432.jpg 768w\"          data-sizes=\"(min-width:1200px) 75vw, (min-width:768px) 83vw, 100vw\"          class=\"lazyload\"\n        \n                  role=\"none\"\n        \n        \n                                      \/>\n\n    \n    \n  \n  \n\n<\/div>\n  \n  \n  <div class=\"text-wrapper\">\n    \n              \n<div class=\"f--field f--page-title\">\n\n    \n  <h1>The Vibe of the South<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n    \n    \n          <strong class=\"author-field\"><span >By<\/span>Corey J. Miles, assistant professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University<\/strong>\n    \n          <span class=\"post-date-field\">December 13, 2023<\/span>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--social-share \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--social-share\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"content-wrapper\">\n    <span class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_32 addtoany_list\" style=\"line-height: 32px;\">\n      <span class=\"title\">\n        Share\n      <\/span>\n                        <a class=\"a2a_button_copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"\/#copy_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Link\">\n            <span class=\"a2a_svg a2a_s__default a2a_s_copy_link\">\n              <svg height=\"19\" viewBox=\"0 0 19 19\" width=\"19\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\"><path d=\"m7.43475275 9.52380952-2.17490843 2.26076008c-1.08745421 1.058837-1.68841575 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style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newest ERI Book Spotlight is written by Corey J. Miles, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">assistant professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who writes about the inspiration for and themes from his book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/V\/Vibe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/V\/Vibe\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This book<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> narrates how southern Black sound, feeling, and being is constantly policed, surveilled, and criminalized. In doing so, he re-narrates the region as the &#8220;\u2019carceral South,\u2019 to capture the ways people in the South and beyond can feel the emotional weight of the criminalization of Blackness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the second time in two years my grandma sat front row at a burial to watch one of her children laid to rest. In 2019 it was my mama and in 2021 my uncle. It felt like time was inverted. A black boy watching his grandma while she watched caskets, that none of us could afford, steal her children away. This time was different though. In 2019 my mind was rushing to locate all the experiences I had with my mama and turn them into memories because that\u2019s all I had left of her, so I really didn\u2019t see my grandma. When my uncle was <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/abc11.com\/halifax-county-shooting-weldon-homicide-double-murder\/10490504\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">murdered<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, I was angry and looked to the faces of my hurt family members to validate that anger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hated that n&#8212;- that shot my uncle. I hated myself because I spent the last ten years of my life away from my mother pursuing a degree that never provided financial stability nor a better understanding of my mother\u2019s complicated life. Three days before my uncle\u2019s funeral I drove to northeast North Carolina with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2023\/08\/10\/1193297765\/the-birth-of-trap-music-and-the-rise-of-southern-hip-hop\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">trap music<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, southern rap centered on drug dealing and violence, blasting through speakers that couldn\u2019t get loud enough to drown out the quiet of a lonely car ride. The hi-hats and 808s of the trap instrumentation hit my chest like the phone call from my brother telling me the news about our uncle. The unabashed stories about violence, drugs, and crime held me during the ride. It was trap music that affirmed my fears and all the other hard to name emotions I had. The music made me feel seen, which in turn let me know that even in the midst of my anger I could be some form of beautiful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the few references I had that could explain how such a violent and dark sound could make me feel beautiful was the relationship I developed with rap artist Premo during my ethnographic fieldwork in North Carolina between 2016-2020. His <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@premoopana2872\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">songs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> layered with stories about struggle, violence, and possibility always made me feel <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">something<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Both our fathers made attempts at loving our mothers but eventually left looking for dreams that America promised men, but the South denied to Black men. While we have a lot in common, on our first night meeting it was conversations about how the criminal legal system made both of us feel anxious that we developed a close relationship. Premo ended that night by dapping me up and during our embrace saying, \u201cyou have a good vibe.\u201d At that moment I thought he was making a valuation of my personality, but over the next four years what I would grow to understand is that he was talking about a particular type of relational experience between us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have no formal criminal record nor experiences with the criminal legal system that will show up in any database, Premo does. My experience escapes quantifiable ways of understanding the carceral state. To some it may appear that Premo and I would have different concerns as it relates to the criminal legal system, but \u201cvibe\u201d as a theoretical concept helps explain how we bonded over a similar positioning to that system even though we have a qualitatively different experience with it. Sociology as a discipline has attempted to observe, quantify, and index its way to an understanding of Blackness through calculations of disparity. Even though I may have slipped through the cracks of the criminal legal system and don\u2019t show up in any databases, having to live in relation to that system is emotionally scarring and we bonded over that type of pain. When Black people like me grow up in the projects and become conventionally successful, society may say \u201che avoided being a statistic.\u201d Does avoiding being a statistic mean avoiding anti-Blackness all together?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/V\/Vibe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16616 size-large aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Image-front-cover_rb_modalcover-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe is an accounting of Black life beyond numerical calculations of disparity, and it takes seriously that the unsayable and unindexed sounds, feelings, and moments that make up Black life can tell us something about how Black people are situated in society. Vibe names the process of using the felt experience, whether it is the social climate, emotions, or bodily gestures to understand social structures and it is also a collective communicative system used to name experiences that standard emotive language fails to approximate. When Premo said I have a good vibe he was talking about the social climate we produced together at that moment. To say that the space we created together felt good or safe didn\u2019t quite get to what he wanted to communicate. Vibe was a way to gesture to a type of relational experience that standard American emotive language just doesn\u2019t capture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trap songs I listened to on the drive to my uncle\u2019s funeral made me feel beautiful because when those gritty sounds collided with the pain that lived in me it produced a moment that was sincere to my needs and desires. The vibe was good. My book <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.state.ms.us\/Books\/V\/Vibe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is concerned with using the inner lives of Black southerners to re\/map how we understand what and where the US South is. It demonstrates that Black southerners can feel the weight of the criminalization of Blackness on their skin and that Black feeling is denied any structural significance. Trap music sounds like what being Black in the South feels like. The book pushes back against sociology\u2019s desire to study Black people and moves us to vibing with them to see what is made legible through this shift. Black southerners have always fought to reshape the material and political landscape of the South. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> centers how Black placemaking is also about creating spaces that are attuned to the emotional needs and desires of Black people. They have done this through changing the vibe of the South.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the Author <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16633 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Corey_J_Miles_book.jpg\" alt=\"headshot of Corey J. Miles\" width=\"250\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Corey_J_Miles_book.jpg 250w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/eri\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2023\/12\/Corey_J_Miles_book-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Corey J. Miles is an assistant professor of sociology and Africana Studies at Tulane University. He is the author of\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vibe: The Sound and Feeling of Black Life in the American South<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. His research is a conversation between the intimacies of blackness, hip hop, racialized emotions, carcerality, and ethnography. Miles is from the rural black town of Weldon North Carolina, where he learned that style and beauty are central to how black people move above the red clay they live on. Even more important than a list of professional accomplishments, he is committed to living blackness in community with other black people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <hr \/>\n<p>\u00a9 2023. 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