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  • Blue Muse

    Timothy Duffy's Southern Photographs

    by Timothy Duffy ...
    The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method. In this collection of extraordinary portraits, Timothy Duffy brings new vitality to this old form, capturing powerful images of musicians who represent the roots of American music. These American blues, jazz, and folk artists are living expressions of a cultural legacy, made and remade by everyday people and passed down through ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook

    Voices of the Mississippi Blues

    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Give My Poor Heart Ease

    Voices of the Mississippi Blues

    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the NICU: Comprehensive Care of the High-Risk Infant

    Improve medical and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants with evidence-based management strategiesBeyond the NICU is the first book to deliver practical, evidence-based strategies for healthcare providers caring for the NICU graduate during convalescence and after discharge. It is a guide to the successful transition of a high-risk infant from intensive care to the intermediate-level ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Bill Ferris Enhanced Omnibus E-Book

    Includes Give my Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South

    This Omnibus Ebook for the first time brings together pioneering folklorist William Ferris’s books on the music and arts of the South.Included in this ebook are:Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues:Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus"

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue

    “I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I’ve come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It’s just like a preacher.”The consummate Chiltin’ Circuit performer talks women, finding his crossover audience, and masquerading as two different people on the same stage in one night.This article appears in the 2011 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The South in Color

    A Visual Journal

    Series series H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
    Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful, provocative collection of 100 of Ferris’s ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Storied South

    Voices of Writers and Artists

    The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book

    Collected Essays from the Pages of Southern Cultures, 1995-2013

    Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in Southern Cultures for nearly half of that time.To celebrate Southern Cultures' 20th anniversary, we present our inaugural special omnibus ebook, The William R. Ferris Reader. Collected here for the first time are all 20 of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Volume 14: Folklife

    Series Book 14 - The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
    Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions.Moving beyond the traditional view of folklore that situates it in historical practice and narrowly defined genres ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • "Those little color snapshots": William Christenberry

    An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

    Follow the evolution of the vision and career of one of the South’s foremost photographers.“Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye.” This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    A Companion Edition to the Documentary Film Directed by Raoul Peck

    Series series Vintage International
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