The Lens Ep. 11: Violence, Protest, and Appalachian Identity in Tyler Childers' Music - a podcast by UNC Digital History Lab

On this episode of the Lens, Emma and Craig are joined by Lucas Kelley, a PhD candidate in the History Department at UNC - Chapel Hill. Lucas discusses the historical importance of Tyler Childers' most recent album, Long Violent History. Childers released the album in the aftermath of the widespread protests against police brutality around the country in the summer of 2020. The closing track is a rallying call for White Appalachians to sympathize with the protests. We discuss how Childers' uses historical understandings of Appalachia to make an argument, and the long history of violent protest in the mountain South.

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