University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Jazz and Death
Medical Profiles of Jazz Greats
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
When a jazz hero dies, rumors, speculation, gossip, and legend can muddle the real cause of death. In this book, Frederick J. Spencer conducts an inquest on how jazz greats lived and died pursuing their art. Forensics, medical histories, death certificates, and biographies divulge the way many musical...
by M.D., Nathan Lavid
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2003
Stuttering is an affliction that affects every ethnicity and every culture equally, some sixty million people worldwide. Five percent of children stutter. Typically this debilitating condition emerges when a child is between the ages of two and six. Twenty percent of these children will continue...
by Peggy Frankland
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Women Pioneers of the Louisiana Environmental Movement provides a window into the passion and significance of thirty-eight committed individuals who led a grassroots movement in a socially conservative state. The book is comprised of oral history narratives in which women activists share their motivation,...
Inherit the Land
Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggieâ??s Will
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2006
In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest woman in Union County, North Carolina. Upon...
Three Years in Wonderland
The Disney Brothers, C. V. Wood, and the Making of the Great American Theme Park
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the park--fast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Three Years in Wonderland presents the never-before-told, full story of "the happiest place on earth."...
by M.D., Phil Lieberman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1999
Asthma affects 21.5 million Americans, and that number is on the rise. With over a third of its sufferers under the age of 21, this lung affliction has become the most prevalent chronic disease among children, and the third most prevalent in the general population. In 1997, over five thousand Americans...
Not Just Childâ??s Play
Emerging Tradition and the Lost Boys of Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2007
Felicia R. McMahon breaks new ground in the presentation and analysis of emerging traditions of the \"Lost Boys,\" a group of parentless youths who fled Sudan under tragic circumstances in the 1990s. With compelling insight, McMahon analyzes the oral traditions of the DiDinga Lost Boys, about whom very...
Folklore in Baltic History
Resistance and Resurgence
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2019
Folklore in the Baltic History: Resistance and Resurgence is about the role of folklore, folklore archives, and folklore studies in the contemporary history of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—together called the Baltic countries. They were occupied by Russia, by Germany, and lastly by the USSR at...
A Spiral Way
How the Phonograph Changed Ethnography
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
The invention of the cylinder phonograph at the end of the nineteenth century opened up a new world for cultural research. Indeed, Edison's talking machine became one of the basic tools of anthropology. It not only equipped researchers with the means of preserving folk songs but it also enabled them...
Howard Chaykin
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful engagement with real-world politics and culture. His...
Jim Shooter
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
As an American comic book writer, editor, and businessman, Jim Shooter (b. 1951) remains among the most important figures in the history of the medium. Starting in 1966 at the age of fourteen, Shooter, as the young protégé of verbally abusive DC editor Mort Weisinger, helped introduce themes and...
Walt before Mickey
Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney Studio cartoon with synchronized sound made its main...
by Charles M. Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010
While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's...
Frank Capra
The Catastrophe of Success
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Moviegoers often assume Frank Capra's life resembled his beloved films (such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life). A man of the people faces tremendous odds and, by doing the right thing, triumphs! But as Joseph McBride reveals in this meticulously researched, definitive biography,...