Following the Civil War, when the southern agrarian economy collapsed and rural African American sharecroppers and tenant farmers were forced to migrate for survival to major population centers — particularly in and around Birmingham, Alabama, where iron and steel production created jobs — a new and more public language of quilts, funerary, and yard arts arose. (soulsgrowndeep.org)
The abundance of unorthodox materials, everyday objects and unusual mediums were turned into a shared public language. (widewalls.ch)
They will need, as one sympathetic Labour backbencher put it last week, «to escape the cul - de-sacs of what might be called Old New Labour thinking» if the government is to find the right public language which can build a consensus for progressive reform. (theguardian.com)