Ray Hicks

Author : Lynn Salsi
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781572336216

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The Life and Times of Ray Hicks by Lynn Salsi Pdf

Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are included in The Life and Times of Ray Hicks. Born in 1922, Ray lived his whole life in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. (Although it finally got a refrigerator and electric lights, Ray's place never did get a telephone, indoor plumbing, or a radio or television.) It seems he knew everything there was to know about living off the land and about his family's history. A lot of what he knew is in this new book. Hicks made his public storytelling debut in 1951, when a local schoolteacher invited him to her class. In 1973, Ray performed at the very first International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He appeared at every one until he became too weak to attend. He died on Easter Sunday in 2003. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and visits, painstakingly pieced together by Lynn Salsi, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks comes as close as possible to capturing the way Ray talked. Part memoir and part biography, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks presents, sometimes in Ray Hicks's own words, the most important part of his long, colorful life-a life scarcely less interesting than the Jack Tales he told so well. Lynn Salsi is the author of several books, including The Jack Tales and Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales. She has received the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, six Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards, and was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2001.

Author : Robert Isbell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807849626

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Ray Hicks by Robert Isbell Pdf

Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where

Author : Christine Pavesic
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780595363773

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Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales by Christine Pavesic Pdf

The Jack Tales derive from a Western European narrative cycle and are the oldest folktales to survive in the North American oral tradition. In the twenty-first century, the Jack Tales continue to retain their place at the forefront of Western Oral Tradition. Over the centuries the tales of Jack and his adventures have tended to absorb the interests and values of the culture in which they are operating. Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales: A Study of Appalachian History, Culture, and Philosophy, assesses folktales in the oral tradition and examines both the history and the cultural impact of them. It includes a survey of existing scholarship concerning orality and the European origins of the Jack Tales and then focuses upon a prominent Appalachian native recorder of the tales, Ray Hicks. His enthusiasm and skill as a storyteller has allowed Hicks to bring an ancient body of oral literature to all types of audiences. The way that Hicks has enhanced the Jack Tales through his manner of storytelling-the nature of his performance, his voice and mimicry, the stimulus of the audience and his response-is explored along with the setting of these tales-the Appalachian mountains.

Author : Raymond Hicks
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1499107013

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I'm Still Standing by Raymond Hicks Pdf

I'M STILL STANDING is the story of a man whose idea of duty put him in conflict with the powers that be, and how he endured the injustice of false charges and wrongful incarceration, turning bad providence into spiritual growth. Raymond Hicks writes candidly about the humiliation that he suffered as an upstanding young black officer who was wrongly accused by his coworkers-the anguish and financial ruin that he and his family experienced as he single-handedly attempted to fight corruption within the sheriff's department, as well as within the justice system which failed him. Hicks, a modern-day Serpico, reveals his story in hopes that no other dedicated individual will ever have to suffer through a "justice system gone mad." The purpose of this book is not just to restore justice, to "right the wrongs" visited upon Mr. Hicks, but to make everyone aware of the dangers we all face in a country riddled with corruption to such a degree that "honesty" is all but eliminated.

Author : Betty N. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813184081

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Jane Hicks Gentry by Betty N. Smith Pdf

"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.

Author : Walch Publishing
Publisher : Walch Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0825145767

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Content-Area Writing Strategies for Language Arts by Walch Publishing Pdf

Author : Robert J. Higgs
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0870498762

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Appalachia Inside Out: Conflict and change by Robert J. Higgs Pdf

The two volumes of Appalachia Inside Out constitute the most comprehensive anthology of writings on Appalachia ever assembled. Representing the work of approximately two hundred authors.

Author : William Bernard McCarthy,Cheryl Oxford,Joseph Daniel Sobol
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0807821357

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Jack in Two Worlds by William Bernard McCarthy,Cheryl Oxford,Joseph Daniel Sobol Pdf

Jack in Two Worlds: Contemporary North American Tales and Their Tellers

Author : Shannon Hitchcock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1478869674

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Saving Granddaddy's Stories: Ray Hicks, the Voice of Appalachia by Shannon Hitchcock Pdf

As a young boy living in the Appalachian Mountains, Ray Hicks loved his grandfather's stories because he told them "the mountain way." After his grandfather's death, Ray continued to tell these stories to anyone who would listen. Years later, his storytelling became so famous he was known as the "Voice of Appalachia."

Author : Linda Garland Page,Hilton Smith
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 080784425X

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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Toys & Games by Linda Garland Page,Hilton Smith Pdf

Provides instructions for playing indoor and outdoor games and making dolls, homemade board games, and other toys

Author : Robert Stone
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395860253

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Dog Soldiers by Robert Stone Pdf

Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug deal, but things go very wrong when he gets back to the U.S. and finds himself hunted by a corrupt government agent.

Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : CORNELL:31924054594118

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Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board by United States. National Labor Relations Board Pdf

Author : Ben Fink
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781613321928

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Art in a Democracy by Ben Fink Pdf

Seminal plays and essays reveal the radical origins and approach of Appalachia’s Roadside Theater This two-volume anthology tells the story of Roadside Theater’s first 45 years and includes nine award-winning original play scripts; ten essays by authors from different disciplines and generations, which explore the plays’ social, economic, and political circumstances; and a critical recounting of the theater’s history from 1975 through 2020. The plays in Volume 1 offer a people’s history of the Appalachian coalfields, from the European incursion through the American War in Vietnam.

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1687 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135578770

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American Folklore by Jan Harold Brunvand Pdf

Contains over 500 articles Ranging over foodways and folksongs, quiltmaking and computer lore, Pecos Bill, Butch Cassidy, and Elvis sightings, more than 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, and crafts; sports and holidays; tall tales and legendary figures; genres and forms; scholarly approaches and theories; regions and ethnic groups; performers and collectors; writers and scholars; religious beliefs and practices. The alphabetically arranged entries vary from concise definitions to detailed surveys, each accompanied by a brief, up-to-date bibliography. Special features *More than 2000 contributors *Over 500 articles spotlight folk literature, music, crafts, and more *Alphabetically arranged *Entries accompanied by up-to-date bibliographies *Edited by America's best-known folklore authority

Author : James Monaco
Publisher : Perigee Trade
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : STANFORD:36105000440987

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The Movie Guide by James Monaco Pdf

From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.