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  • One Grand Noise

    Boxing Day in the Anglicized Caribbean World

    by Jerrilyn McGregory ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies Series
    Winner of the 2022 Chicago Folklore PrizeFor many, December 26 is more than the day after Christmas. Boxing Day is one of the world’s most celebrated cultural holidays. As a legacy of British colonialism, Boxing Day is observed throughout Africa and parts of the African diaspora, but, unlike Trinidadian Carnival and Mardi Gras, fewer know of Bermuda’s Gombey dancers, Bahamian Junkanoo, Dangriga’s ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Wiregrass Country

    by Jerrilyn McGregory ...

    $15.89 USD

  • Downhome Gospel

    African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country

    by Jerrilyn McGregory ...
    Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary programs fortify spiritual as well as social needs. In this region African Americans maintain a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Florida Folklife Reader

    by Tina Bucuvalas, Katherine Borland, Brent Cantrell, Martha Ellen Davis, Stavros K. Frangos, Gregory Hansen, Joyce M. Jackson, Ormond H. Loomis, Jerrilyn McGregory, Martha Nelson0, Laurie K. Sommers1, Robert L. Stone2, Stephen Stuempfle3, Anna Lomax Wood4 ...
    Florida is blessed with a semitropical climate, beautiful inland areas, and over a thousand miles of warm seas and sandy beaches. And Floridians are every bit as colorful and diverse as the tropical foliage. The interaction between Florida's people and its environment has created distinctive mixes of traditional life unlike those anywhere else in America.Florida's cultural foundation includes ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Downhome Gospel

    African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country

    by Jerrilyn McGregory ...
    Jerrilyn McGregory explores sacred music and spiritual activism in a little-known region of the South, the Wiregrass Country of Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida. She examines African American sacred music outside of Sunday church-related activities, showing that singing conventions and anniversary programs fortify spiritual as well as social needs. In this region African Americans maintain a ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Wiregrass Country

    by Jerrilyn McGregory ...
    Series series Folklife in the South Series
    Wiregrass (Aristida stricta) refers to a genus of flora that depends on fire ecology for germination. Although its growth is widespread from the Chesapeake Bay to the western brim of Texas, only one region has acquired the word for vernacular recognition. Ranging over parts of three states, Wiregrass Country extends from north of Savannah, sweeps across rolling meadows into the southwest Georgia ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths and Legends

    by Peter Ellis ...
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    Developed from an early oral storytelling tradition dating back to the dawn of European culture, this is one of the oldest and most vibrant of Europe's mythologies. From all six Celtic cultures - Irish, Scots, Welsh, Cornish, Manx andBreton - Peter Berresford Ellishas included popular myths and legends, as well as bringing to light exciting new taleswhich have been lying in manuscript form, ... Read more

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    Their True Bloody History From New York to California

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  • Welsh Fairytales

    by W. Jenkyn Thomas ...
    I found, when schoolmastering in South Wales, that all the fairy books in the school library were in such constant demand that they rapidly wore out. This led me to inquire whether the readers were familiar with the fairy mythology of their own country. While, however, they were learned in the folk-lore of other nations, they were, with few exceptions, ignorant of the Fair Family and other legends ... Read more

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