William J Ferris

The Grain Traders: The Story of the Chicago Board of Trade

Blues from the Delta

Blues from the Delta

Blues from the Delta

You Live and Learn, Then You Die and Forget It All

My History Is America's History: 15 Things You Can Do to Save America's Stories

Mississippi Black Folklore: A Research Bibliography and Discography

Mississippi Black Folklore: A Research Bibliography and Discography

William R. Ferris

William Reynolds Ferris (born February 5, 1942 in Vicksburg, Mississippi) is an American author and scholar and former chairman of the National Endowment...

Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

This omnibus volume offers a unique look at a fascinating and evocative strain of art that originated chiefly in the rural American South and in the black cultural centers as blacks migrated across the continent. Pictorial quilts, sculpture and carvings, basketry, pottery, forged metal, musical inst...

Nashville Portraits: Legends Of Country Music

Jim McGuire’s photographs have graced the covers of more than 400 albums and CDs over the past thirty years. Most of the big recording stars insist on using McGuire: Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Doc Watson, Dolly Parton, Carole King, Townes Van Zandt, John Hartford, Emmylou Harris and Reba McEntire...

The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book: Collected Essays from the Pages of Southern Cultures, 1995-2013

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...

The Southern Journey of Alan Lomax: Words, Photographs, and Music

A Best Photo Book of 2012 by American Photo. A new look at the legendary folklorist and his work. 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 ...

Lost Communities of Virginia

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 stru...

The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists

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 draw...

Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in the imagination, and the homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.The Encyclop...

Blues From The Delta

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...