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

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

    by William Ferris ...
    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

  • Bobby Rush: "Blues Singer--Plus"

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

    by William Ferris ...
    “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

  • "Those little color snapshots": William Christenberry

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

    by William Ferris ...
    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

  • Give My Poor Heart Ease

    Voices of the Mississippi Blues

    by William Ferris ...
    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

  • The South in Color

    A Visual Journal

    by William Ferris ...
    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 Bill Ferris Enhanced Omnibus E-Book

    Includes Give my Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South

    by William Ferris ...
    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

  • Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook

    Voices of the Mississippi Blues

    by William Ferris ...
    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

  • The Storied South

    Voices of Writers and Artists

    by William Ferris ...
    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

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

    by William Ferris Malcolm ...
    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

  • I AM A MAN

    Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-1970

    by William R. Ferris ...
    In the American South, the civil rights movement in the 1960s and the struggle to abolish racial segregation erupted in dramatic scenes at lunch counters, in schools, and in churches. The admission of James Meredith as the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi; the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; and the sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis—where Martin Luther ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York

    Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration

    by Maura Grace Harrington, Linda Dowling Almeida, Ray O'Hanlon, Brendan Dolan, John B. Wefing, Alan Delozier, Augustine J. Curley, Paul Ferris, William B. Rogers0, Dermot Quinn1, Nicole Anderson2 ...
    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 case studies, interviews, scholarly research in primary historical documents and theory, and first ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • The Larder

    Food Studies Methods from the American South

    by Andrew Warnes, Angela Jill Cooley, Beth Latshaw, Carolyn de la Peña, David S. Shields, Jessica B. Harris, Justin A. Nystrom, Katie Rawson, Marcie Ferris, Psyche Williams-Forson, Rayna Green, Rebecca Sharpless, Rien Fertel, Tom Hanchett, Wiley C. Prewitt Jr. ...
    Series series
    The sixteen essays in The Larder argue that the study of food does not simply help us understand more about what we eat and the foodways we embrace. The methods and strategies herein help scholars use food and foodways as lenses to examine human experience. The resulting conversations provoke a deeper understanding of our overlapping, historically situated, and evolving cultures and societies.The ... Read more

    $33.29 USD