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Virginia's back roads and rural areas are dotted with traces of
once-thriving communities. General stores, train depots, schools,
churches, banks, and post offices provide intriguing details of a
way of life now gone. The buildings may be empty or repurposed
today, the existing community may be struggling to survive or
rebuilding itself in a new and different way, but the story behind
each community's original development is an interesting and
important footnote to the development of Virginia and the United
States.
"Lost Communities of Virginia" documents thirty small
communities from throughout the Commonwealth that have lost their
original industry, transportation mode, or way of life. Using
contemporary photographs, historical information, maps, and
excerpts of interviews with longtime residents of these
communities, the book documents the present conditions, recalls
past boom times, and explains the role of each community in
regional settlement.
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 generations. In the hands of the people in Duffy's
portraits, centuries-old traditions find new expression in this
digital millennium. Likewise, Duffy's photographic techniques fuse
old forms and the original collodion wet plates with modern
lighting. In this collaboration between photographer and artist,
music and image meet around a history of struggle, adaptability,
and creativity. It is this ethos that Duffy captures in his
tintypes. Some of the musicians in Duffy's photographs have found
fame, but most have not. While the world finds inspiration in the
grassroots creativity of these musicians, barriers of class, race,
and place often keep them underacknowledged and obscured. But in
these photographs, Duffy demands they be seen.
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 years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally
tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or
southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and
talk about the South. The Storied South offers a unique, intimate
opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn
how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also
features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the
speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the
interviews. |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 years, the book reveals how storytelling
is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these
southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans
think and talk about the South.
One man's power to capture his world in all its colours, surprises,
and troubles. Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their
twelve-year-oldson a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in
1954, Ferris passionatelybegan to photograph his world. He has
never stopped. The sixtiesand seventies were a particularly
significant period for Ferris as he becamea pathbreaking
documentarian of the American South. This beautiful,provocative
collection of 100 of Ferris's photographs of the South, takenduring
this formative period, capture the power of his color
photography.Color film, as Ferris points out in the book's
introduction, was not commonlyused by documentarians during the
latter half of the twentieth century,but Ferris found color to work
in significant ways in the photographicjournals he created of his
world in all its permutations and surprises. The volume opens with
images of his family's farm and its workers-family and
hired-southeast of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The images are atonce
lyrical and troubling. As Ferris continued to photograph people
andtheir homes, churches, and blues clubs, their handmade signs and
folk art,and the roads that wound through the region, divisive
racial landscapesbecome part of the record. A foreword by Tom
Rankin, professor of visualstudies and former director of the
Center for Documentary Studies atDuke University, provides rich
insight into Ferris's work.
The essays in this collection range from the impact of
technology on the British folksong revival to regional
characteristics of early rock and roll in New Orleans. Attention is
given to the blues, Sacred Harp singing, ethnic music, both black
and white gospel, country music, and the polka. Other essays
consider the relationship of music from the Yiddish-American
theater with that of Broadway, the wide influence and
commercialization of black music in today's popular music, myths
about early black music, and Charles Ives as folk hero.
Contributors include Amiri Baraka, Doris J. Dyen, Dena J. Epstein,
David Evans, Kenneth S. Goldstein, Anthony Heilbut, William Ivey,
Charles Keil, A. L. Lloyd, Bill C. Malone, Robert Palmer, Vivian
Perlis, Mark Slobin, Richard Spottswood, and Charles K. Wolfe.
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. Illustrated
with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities
and including a CD of original music, this book features more than
20 interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives
about black life and blues music in the heart of the American
South. Oversize, with 45 halftones.
Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David
Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold
Shaw, and Dick Shurman Fifty years after Charley Patton's death in
1934, a team of blues experts gathered five thousand miles from
Dockery Farms at the University of Liege in Belgium to honor the
life and music of the most influential artist of the Mississippi
Delta blues. This volume brings together essays from that
international symposium on Charley Patton and Mississippi blues
traditions, influences, and comparisons. Originally published by
Presses Universitaires de Liege in Belgium, this collection has
been revised and updated with a new foreword by William Ferris, new
images added, and some essays translated into English for the first
time. Patton's personal life and his recorded music bear witness to
how he endured and prevailed in his struggle as a black man during
the early twentieth century. Within this volume, that story offers
hope and wonder. Organized in two parts--""Origins and Traditions""
and ""Comparison with Other Regional Styles and Mutual
Influence""--the essays create an invaluable resource on the life
and music of this early master. Written by a distinguished group of
scholars, these pieces secure the legacy of Charley Patton as the
fountainhead of Mississippi Delta blues.
Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David
Evans, William Ferris, Jim O'Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold
Shaw, and Dick Shurman Fifty years after Charley Patton's death in
1934, a team of blues experts gathered five thousand miles from
Dockery Farms at the University of Liege in Belgium to honor the
life and music of the most influential artist of the Mississippi
Delta blues. This volume brings together essays from that
international symposium on Charley Patton and Mississippi blues
traditions, influences, and comparisons. Originally published by
Presses Universitaires de Liege in Belgium, this collection has
been revised and updated with a new foreword by William Ferris, new
images added, and some essays translated into English for the first
time. Patton's personal life and his recorded music bear witness to
how he endured and prevailed in his struggle as a black man during
the early twentieth century. Within this volume, that story offers
hope and wonder. Organized in two parts--""Origins and Traditions""
and ""Comparison with Other Regional Styles and Mutual
Influence""--the essays create an invaluable resource on the life
and music of this early master. Written by a distinguished group of
scholars, these pieces secure the legacy of Charley Patton as the
fountainhead of Mississippi Delta blues.
William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern
Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as
deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and
firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that
informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and
secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in
living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship.
More than fifty years ago, on a trip dubbed "the Southern Journey,"
Alan Lomax visited Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Kentucky, and Tennessee, uncovering the little-known southern
backcountry and blues music that we now consider uniquely American.
Lomax's camera was a constant companion, and his images of both
legendary and anonymous folk musicians complement his famous field
recordings. These photographs-largely unpublished-show musicians
making music with family and friends at home, with fellow
worshippers at church, and alongside workers and prisoners in the
fields. Discussions of Lomax's life and career by his disciple and
lauded folklorist William Ferris, and a lyrical look at Lomax's
photographs by novelist and Grammy Award-winning music writer Tom
Piazza, enrich this valuable collection.
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