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Author : Jerrilyn McGregory
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1604739576
A look at a fascinating Deep South region and its distinctive way of life
Author : Herb Chapman,Muncy Chapman
Publisher : Pineapple Press Inc
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1561641561
Set in 1835 in the northern Florida Territory, this historical novel will transport you to a time when Florida settlers were few and laws were scarce. Dealing with cattle rustlers and a brewing Seminole war, Ace and Amaly Dover, their four sons, and their spirited daughter, Marvelous, have their hands full protecting their Three Springs Ranch. With authentic historical details and engaging characters, this family saga will capture your heart.
Author : Mark V. Wetherington
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1572331682
This examination of cultural change challenges the conventional view of the Georgia Pine Belt as an unchanging economic backwater. Its postbellum economy evolves from self-sufficiency to being largely dependent upon cotton. Before the Civil War, the Piney Woods easily supported a population of mostly yeomen farmers and livestock herders. After the war, a variety of external forces, spearheaded by Reconstruction-era New South boosters, invaded the region, permanently altering the social, political, and economic landscape in an attempt to create a South with a diversified economy. The first stage in the transformation -- railroad construction and a revival of steamboating -- led to the second stage: sawmilling and turpentining. The harvest of forest products during the 1870s and 1880s created new economic opportunities but left the area dependent upon a single industry that brought deforestation and the decline of the open-range system within a generation.
Author : Ryan Erisman
Publisher : Ryan Erisman, Inc.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781432703332
Author : Jerrilyn McGregory
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628468366
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 social world of their own creation. Their cultural performances embrace some of the most pervasive forms of African American sacred music—spirituals, common meter, Sacred Harp, shape-note, traditional, and contemporary gospel. Moreover, the contexts in which they sing include present-day observations such as the Twentieth of May (Emancipation Day), Burial League Turnouts, and Fifth Sunday. Rather than tracing the evolution of African American sacred music, this ethnographic study focuses on contemporary cultural performances, almost all by women, which embrace all forms. These women promote a female-centered theology to ensure the survival of their communities and personal networks. They function in leadership roles that withstand the test of time. Their spiritual activism presents itself as a way of life. In Wiregrass Country, “You don't have to sing like an angel” is a frequently expressed sentiment. To these women, “good” music is God's music regardless of the manner delivered. Therefore, Downhome Gospel presents gospel music as being more than a transcendent sound. It is local spiritual activism that is writ large. Gospel means joy, hope, expectation, and the good news that makes the soul glad.
Author : Erik Bledsoe
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781578063222
A look into the poor-white world of one of the South's spellbinding storytellers
Author : Jerrilyn McGregory
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496802088
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 coastal plain, fans over into the southeastern corner of Alabama, and dips into the northwestern panhandle of Florida. This book is the first comprehensive study of the folklife of this unique region and its people. Historically underpopulated, economically poor, and predominantly white until the Reconstruction period following the Civil War, Wiregrass Country is a rare stretch of the American South whose economic and cultural development has been shaped more by yeomen farming and frontier attitudes than by King Cotton, plantations, slave-holders, and slaves. Eventually, Wiregrass Country experienced a more diverse influx or residents—tenant farmers, African Americans, and northern industrialists. In many ways, however, it has remained characteristically rural. Few malls have invaded it, and water towers are more prevalent than stately courthouses and city halls. This study typifies the population within the tristate region as communal-minded, frugal, and hardworking. Its values gain full expression in characteristic musical and verbal arts, such as Sacred Harp singing and personal narratives about the supernatural. Although virtually neglected by historians and folklorists, the region is a trove of cultural history preserved in folktales, music, festivals, yardscapes, hunting, and fishing.
Author : Simon J Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1469 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317471950
American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of American Folklife" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established immigrant groups as well as native Americans; American territories, such as Guam and Samoa; major issues, such as education and intellectual property; and expressions of material culture, such as homes, dress, food, and crafts. This encyclopedia covers notable folklife areas as well as general regional categories. It addresses religious groups (reflecting diversity within groups such as the Amish and the Jews), age groups (both old age and youth gangs), and contemporary folk groups (skateboarders and psychobillies) - placing all of them in the vivid tapestry of folklife in America. In addition, this resource offers useful insights on folklife concepts through entries such as "community and group" and "tradition and culture." The set also features complete indexes in each volume, as well as a bibliography for further research.
Author : E. Watson,Darcy Martin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981820
While some see the Miss American Pageant as hokey vestige of another era, many remain enthralled by the annual Atlantic City event. And whether you love it or hate it, no one can deny the impact the contest has had on American popular culture-indeed, many reality television shows seem to have taken cues from the pageant. Founded in 1921, the Miss America Pageant has provided a fascinating glimpse into how American standards of femininity have been defined, projected, maintained, and challenged. At various times, it has been praised as a positive role model for young American women, protested as degrading to women by feminists, and shamed by scandals, such as the one caused by the Penthouse photos of Vanessa Williams in 1984. In this first interdisciplinary anthology to examine this uniquely American event, scholars defend, critique, and reflect on the pageant, grappling with themes like beauty, race, the body, identity, kitsch, and consumerism. "There She Is, Miss America" provides a fascinating examination of an enduring American icon.
Author : Margaret Walker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0395924952
A novel based on the life of the author's great-grandmother follows the story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and one of his slaves, through the years of the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Author : Tina Bucuvalas
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617031403
An overview of the traditional, changing folklife from a vibrant southern state
Author : Mark V. Wetherington
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0807877042
In an examination of the effects of the Civil War on the rural Southern home front, Mark V. Wetherington looks closely at the experiences of white "plain folk--mostly yeoman farmers and craftspeople--in the wiregrass region of southern Georgia before, during, and after the war. Although previous scholars have argued that common people in the South fought the battles of the region's elites, Wetherington contends that the plain folk in this Georgia region fought for their own self-interest. Plain folk, whose communities were outside areas in which slaves were the majority of the population, feared black emancipation would allow former slaves to move from cotton plantations to subsistence areas like their piney woods communities. Thus, they favored secession, defended their way of life by fighting in the Confederate army, and kept the antebellum patriarchy intact in their home communities. Unable by late 1864 to sustain a two-front war in Virginia and at home, surviving veterans took their fight to the local political arena, where they used paramilitary tactics and ritual violence to defeat freedpeople and their white Republican allies, preserving a white patriarchy that relied on ex-Confederate officers for a new generation of leadership.
Author : Kenneth F. Kister
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781425717261
Provides incisive reviews of more than 300 recommended novels and short-story collections set in Florida. Numerous Florida fiction writers, past and present, are represented in the book, including such diverse talents as Edna Buchanan, Harry Crews, Connie May Fowler, and others.--Excerpted from book cover.
Author : Lyn Wilkerson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-29
Category : Gulf States
ISBN : 9780595147618
Roads Less Traveled is a historical travel guide, providing fascinating facts and stories for both daytrippers and vacationers, whether for business or leisure.
Author : Edith Ziegler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817317096
This richly researched and impressively argued work is a history of public schooling in Alabama in the half century following the Civil War. It engages with depth and sophistication Alabama’s social and cultural life in the period that can be characterized by the three “R”s: Reconstruction, redemption, and racism. Alabama was a mostly rural, relatively poor, and culturally conservative state, and its schools reflected the assumptions of that society.
