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Voices of Black Folk

Author : Terri Brinegar
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839269
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Voices of Black Folk written by Terri Brinegar and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1920s, Reverend A. W. Nix (1880–1949), an African American Baptist minister born in Texas, made fifty-four commercial recordings of his sermons on phonographs in Chicago. On these recordings, Nix presented vocal traditions and styles long associated with the southern, rural Black church as he preached about self-help, racial uplift, thrift, and Christian values. As southerners like Nix fled into cities in the North to escape the rampant racism in the South, they contested whether or not African American vocal styles of singing and preaching that had emerged during the slavery era were appropriate for uplifting the race. Specific vocal characteristics, like those on Nix’s recordings, were linked to the image of the “Old Negro” by many African American leaders who favored adopting Europeanized vocal characteristics and musical repertoires into African American churches in order to uplift the modern “New Negro” citizen. Through interviews with family members, musical analyses of the sounds on Nix’s recordings, and examination of historical documents and relevant scholarship, Terri Brinegar argues that the development of the phonograph in the 1920s afforded preachers like Nix the opportunity to present traditional Black vocal styles of the southern Black church as modern Black voices. These vocal styles also influenced musical styles. The “moaning voice” used by Nix and other ministers was a direct connection to the “blues moan” employed by many blues singers including Blind Willie, Blind Lemon, and Ma Rainey. Both Reverend A. W. Nix and his brother, W. M. Nix, were an influence on the “Father of Gospel Music,” Thomas A. Dorsey. The success of Nix’s recorded sermons demonstrates the enduring values African Americans placed on traditional vocal practices.

Mississippi Black Folklore

Author : William R. Ferris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780878050017
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Black Folklore written by William R. Ferris and published by . This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation

Author : Shirley Moody-Turner
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617038865
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by : Shirley Moody-Turner

Download or read book Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation written by Shirley Moody-Turner and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream institutions. They often called into question the meaning of the very folklore projects in which they were engaged. Shirley Moody-Turner analyzes this output, along with the contributions of a disparate group of African American authors and scholars. She explores how black authors and folklorists were active participants—rather than passive observers—in conversations about the politics of representing black folklore. Examining literary texts, folklore documents, cultural performances, legal discourse, and political rhetoric, Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation demonstrates how folklore studies became a battleground across which issues of racial identity and difference were asserted and debated at the turn of the twentieth century. The study is framed by two questions of historical and continuing import. What role have representations of black folklore played in constructing racial identity? And, how have those ideas impacted the way African Americans think about and creatively engage black traditions? Moody-Turner renders established historical facts in a new light and context, taking figures we thought we knew—such as Charles Chesnutt, Anna Julia Cooper, and Paul Laurence Dunbar—and recasting their place in African American intellectual and cultural history.

Crossroads at Clarksdale

Author : Françoise N. Hamlin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835498
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Crossroads at Clarksdale written by Françoise N. Hamlin and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov

Mississippi Folk and the Tales They Tell

Author : Diane Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625847386
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Folk and the Tales They Tell written by Diane Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the hills to the coast, the people of Mississippi have stories to tell. Most would never guess that Raleigh, Mississippi, once played host to the National Tobacco Spitting Contest. Over in Okolona, children are told of the man who lived--and died--deep down in a hole and scared passersby. From the gandy dancers who built the first train tracks in Mississippi to the eight-foot-tall man who lived in the woods of Columbia, read tales that range from common myth to a good bit of righteous gossip. Author and storyteller Diane Williams traveled across the Magnolia State to gather these local legends and has compiled them into an inquisitive, laugh-out-loud collection.

A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore

Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer

Author : Curtis Wilkie
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324005769
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer written by Curtis Wilkie and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of NPR's Best Books of the Year Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg, and for years after Evers’s assassination Dahmer was the chief advocate for voting rights in a county where Black registration was shamelessly suppressed. This put Dahmer in the crosshairs of the White Knights, with headquarters in nearby Laurel. Already known as one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South, the group carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A year before, Tom Landrum, a young, unassuming member of a family with deep Mississippi roots, joined the Klan to become an FBI informant. He penetrated the White Knights’ secret circles, recording almost daily journal entries. He risked his life, and the safety of his young family, to chronicle extensively the clandestine activities of the Klan. Veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie draws on his exclusive access to Landrum’s journals to re-create these events—the conversations, the incendiary nighttime meetings, the plans leading up to Dahmer’s murder and its erratic execution—culminating in the conviction and imprisonment of many of those responsible for Dahmer’s death. In riveting detail, When Evil Lived in Laurel plumbs the nature and harrowing consequences of institutional racism, and brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South—one with urgent implications for today.

A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore

Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835

Author : David J. Libby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604732009
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Slavery and Frontier Mississippi, 1720-1835 written by David J. Libby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the evolution of this frontier society and its unyielding grip on slavery

Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi

Author : Menra Hopewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Legends of the Missouri and Mississippi written by Menra Hopewell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Negro Folktales

Author : Richard M. Dorson
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9780844619903
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book American Negro Folktales written by Richard M. Dorson and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mississippi Black Folklore

Author : William R. Ferris
Publisher : Hattiesburg : University and College Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Black Folklore written by William R. Ferris and published by Hattiesburg : University and College Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi

Author : Shana Walton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1628468459
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi written by Shana Walton and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Linda Pierce Allen, Carl L. Bankston III, Barbara Carpenter, Milburn J. Crowe, Vy Thuc Dao, Bridget Anne Hayden, Joyce Marie Jackson, Emily Erwin Jones, Tom Mould, Frieda Quon, Celeste Ray, Stuart Rockoff, Devparna Roy, Aimée L. Schmidt, James Thomas, Shana Walton, Lola Williamson, and Amy L. Young Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities—sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden—have helped shape the state in important ways. Amid renewed interest in identity, the Mississippi Humanities Council has commissioned a companion volume to its earlier book that studied ethnicity in the state from the period 1500-1900. This new book, Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century, offers stories of immigrants overcoming obstacles, immigrants newly arrived, and long-settled groups witnessing a revitalized claim to membership. The book examines twentieth-century immigration trends, explores the reemergence of ethnic identity, and undertakes case studies of current ethnic groups. Some of the groups featured in the volume include Chinese, Latino, Lebanese, Jewish, Filipino, South Asian, and Vietnamese communities. The book also examines Biloxi as a city that has long attracted a diverse population and takes a look at the growth in identity affiliation among people of European descent. The book is funded in part by a “We the People” grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Mother Wit from Laughing Barrel

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034329
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Mother Wit from Laughing Barrel written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1973 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore

Author : Benjamin Albert Botkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book A Treasury of Mississippi River Folklore written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Worse Than Slavery

Author : David M. Oshinsky
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439107742
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Worse Than Slavery written by David M. Oshinsky and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides.

Searching for Black Confederates

Author : Kevin M. Levin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469653273
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Searching for Black Confederates written by Kevin M. Levin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-08-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100,000 free and enslaved African Americans fought willingly as soldiers in the Confederate army. But as Kevin M. Levin argues in this carefully researched book, such claims would have shocked anyone who served in the army during the war itself. Levin explains that imprecise contemporary accounts, poorly understood primary-source material, and other misrepresentations helped fuel the rise of the black Confederate myth. Moreover, Levin shows that belief in the existence of black Confederate soldiers largely originated in the 1970s, a period that witnessed both a significant shift in how Americans remembered the Civil War and a rising backlash against African Americans' gains in civil rights and other realms. Levin also investigates the roles that African Americans actually performed in the Confederate army, including personal body servants and forced laborers. He demonstrates that regardless of the dangers these men faced in camp, on the march, and on the battlefield, their legal status remained unchanged. Even long after the guns fell silent, Confederate veterans and other writers remembered these men as former slaves and not as soldiers, an important reminder that how the war is remembered often runs counter to history.