University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Ain't There No More
Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Plain
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Winner of the 2018 Louisiana Literary Award given by the Louisiana Library Association
For centuries, outlanders have openly denigrated Louisiana's coastal wetlands residents and their stubborn refusal to abandon the region's fragile prairies tremblants despite repeated natural and, more recently,...
by Ellen Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Nat Stonebridge is a thirtyish divorcee who, because of her sexy good looks and incorruptible disregard for convention, has stayed in trouble most of her life. Stranded at home in Philippi, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, after a divorce from her well-to-do husband, she is broke, bored, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2004
Including stories from the 1700s to today, Choctaw Tales showcases the mythic, the legendary and supernatural, the prophecies and histories, the animal fables and jokes that make up the rich and lively Choctaw storytelling tradition. The stories display intelligence, artistry, and creativity as Choctaw...
by Bruce West
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Bruce West's color photographs document the spiritual and creative work of a self-proclaimed preacher, artist, architect, the Reverend H. D. Dennis, and his wife, Margaret, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This book explores the fantastic world of the elderly couple who devoted more than twenty years of...
When They Blew the Levee
Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, one of the flood prevention mechanisms of the Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project. This levee breach was intended to divert water in order to...
Dictionary of Louisiana French
As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
The Dictionary of Louisiana French (DLF) provides the richest inventory of French vocabulary in Louisiana and reflects precisely the speech of the period from 1930 to the present. This dictionary describes the current usage of French-speaking peoples in the five broad regions of South Louisiana: the...
by Will D. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
In Brother to a Dragonfly, Will D. Campbell writes about his life growing up poor in Amite County, Mississippi, during the 1930s alongside his older brother, Joe. Though they grew up in a close-knit family and cared for each other, the two went on to lead very different lives. After serving together...
The Amazing Jimmi Mayes
Sideman to the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
For more than fifty years, Chicago drummer Jimmi Mayes served as a sideman behind some of the greatest musicians and musical groups in history. He began his career playing the blues in the juke joints of Mississippi, sharpened his trade under the mentorship of drum legends Sam Lay and Fred Below in...
A Boy Named Sue
Gender and Country Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2004
From the smiling, sentimental mothers portrayed in 1930s radio barn dance posters, to the sexual shockwaves generated by Elvis Presley, to the female superstars redefining contemporary country music, gender roles and imagery have profoundly influenced the ways country music is made and enjoyed. Proper...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
by Scott Hamilton Suter
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Bordered by the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley forms a natural corridor to the western parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Early American settlers followed the valley as one of the first routes westward. In Shenandoah Valley Folklife, Scott Hamilton...
Carter G. Woodson
History, the Black Press, and Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This study reveals how historian Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Explanations for Woodson's success with the modern black history movement usually include his training,...
To Do This, You Must Know How
Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
To Do This, You Must Know How traces black vocal music instruction and inspiration from the halls of Fisk University to the mining camps of Birmingham and Bessemer, Alabama, and on to Chicago and New Orleans. In the 1870s, the Original Fisk University Jubilee Singers successfully combined Negro spirituals...
by Marian Filar, Charles Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2002
Before the Nazis sent members of the Filar family to Treblinka, these were the last words Marian Filar's mother said to him: "I bless you. You'll survive this horror. You'll become a great pianist, and I'll be very proud of you." Born in 1917 into a musical Jewish family in Warsaw, Filar began playing...