William Ferris: 15 books
The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book
Collected Essays from the Pages of Southern Cultures, 1995-2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2014
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...
The Bill Ferris Enhanced Omnibus E-Book
Includes Give my Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
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...
The South in Color
A Visual Journal
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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...
Give My Poor Heart Ease
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
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...
Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook
Voices of the Mississippi Blues
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
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...
The Storied South
Voices of Writers and Artists
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
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...
"Those little color snapshots": William Christenberry
An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
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."...
Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus"
An article from Southern Cultures 17:4, The Music Issue
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
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,...
by William Ferris Malcolm
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Improve medical and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants with evidence-based management strategies
Beyond 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...
Mule Trader
Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Readers captivated by this book will be happy that Bill Ferris found Ray Lum and that he thought to turn on a tape recorder. Lum (1891-1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.
This delightful book, first published in 1992 as You Live and Learn....
by Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, Seabury Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Weird Tales' launched in March of 1923 and the world was never the same again. While pulp magazines had been around for some time, 'Weird Tales' was the first pulp magazine to specialize in supernatural fiction. 'Weird Tales' single-handedly created the field of genre fiction as we know it. No longer...
Environmental Justice
Issues, Policies, and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
In Environmental Justice, leading thinkers of the environmental justice movemtake a direct look at the failure of "top down" public policy to effectively deal with issues of environmental equity.The book provides a startling look at pressing social and environmental problems and charts a course for...
Reaching a Generation for Christ
A Comprehensive Guide to Youth Ministry
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 1997
Things have changed. The Truth has not. The 1950's are gone forever. The days of the Sunday school attendance award and the much-loved Sunday school picnic have faded into oblivion. Yet some youth ministries still operate as if today's kids are living in a vacuum, unaffected by the changing morals...
The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York
Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
This book is a collection of nine essays exploring the Irish-American experience in the New Jersey and New York metropolitan area, both historically and today. The essays place the local Irish-American experience in the wider context of immigration studies, assimilation, and historical theory. Using...
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