The Dirty South:
Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse

Valerie Cassel Oliver

Published by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The Dirty South: Contemporary Art, Material Culture, and the Sonic Impulse chronicles the visual and sonic parallels in the work of Black artists from the southern United States. It looks to southern hip-hop as a portal into the roots and aesthetic legacies that have shaped contemporary art from the 1920s to the present.