North Mississippi Homeplace

Author : Michael Ford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354406
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Mississippi Homeplace written by Michael Ford and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, a remote area north of Sardis Lake. His efforts resulted in the award-winning documentary film Homeplace (1975), but none of the still photographs from this time were ever published. With this illustrated volume, those photographs are now available and offer a valuable window onto the rural, local culture of northern Mississippi at that time. These moving photographs illustrate Ford's experiences as an apprentice to blacksmith Marion Randolph Hall, his visits to Hal Waldrip's General Store in Chulahoma, a day spent with AG Newsom and his crew making molasses, and Othar Turner's barbecues accompanied by traditional African American fife-and-drum music. They also capture the evocative landscape of the Mississippi hill country and the everyday lives of its residents. In 2013 Ford returned to his adopted homeplace, camera in hand, only to find that most everything had changed--or was gone. This photo essay project juxtaposes the rural Mississippi of the 1970s and the mid-2010s with Ford's personal reflections drawn from his journals, interviews, and archival notes.

Author : Michael Ford
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354414
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Mississippi Homeplace written by Michael Ford and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, a remote area north of Sardis Lake. His efforts resulted in the award-winning documentary film Homeplace (1975), but none of the still photographs from this time were ever published. With this illustrated volume, those photographs are now available and offer a valuable window onto the rural, local culture of northern Mississippi at that time. These moving photographs illustrate Ford’s experiences as an apprentice to blacksmith Marion Randolph Hall, his visits to Hal Waldrip's General Store in Chulahoma, a day spent with AG Newsom and his crew making molasses, and Othar Turner's barbecues accompanied by traditional African American fife-and-drum music. They also capture the evocative landscape of the Mississippi hill country and the everyday lives of its residents. In 2013 Ford returned to his adopted homeplace, camera in hand, only to find that most everything had changed—or was gone. This photo essay project juxtaposes the rural Mississippi of the 1970s and the mid-2010s with Ford’s personal reflections drawn from his journals, interviews, and archival notes.

Author : Andrew C. Baker
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820354147
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bulldozer Revolutions written by Andrew C. Baker and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword / by James C. Giesen -- Introduction : a more rural metropolitan history -- Clearing the backwoods -- Cultivating the fringe -- Damming the hinterlands -- Settling the forest -- Enshrining the countryside -- Conclusion : a tale of two villages.

Author : John M. Shaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839560
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Following the Drums written by John M. Shaw and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the Drums: African American Fife and Drum Music in Tennessee is an epic history of a little-known African American instrumental music form. John M. Shaw follows the music from its roots in West Africa and early American militia drumming to its prominence in African American communities during the time of Reconstruction, both as a rallying tool for political militancy and a community music for funerals, picnics, parades, and dances. Carefully documenting the music's early uses for commercial advertising and sports promotion, Shaw follows the strands of the music through the nadir of African American history during post-Reconstruction up to the form's rediscovery by musicologists and music researchers during the blues and folk revival of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Although these researchers documented the music, and there were a handful of public performances of the music at festivals, the story has a sad conclusion. Fife and drum music ultimately died out in Tennessee during the early 1980s. Newspaper articles from the period and interviews with music researchers and participants reawaken this lost expression, and specific band leaders receive the spotlight they so long deserved. Following the Drums is a journey through African American history and Tennessee history, with a fascinating form of music powering the story.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1280 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1992: Corps of Engineers, North Central Division written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Drew A. Swanson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820353965
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Mountains written by Drew A. Swanson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region's environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.

Author : Elmo Howell
Publisher : Roscoe Langford
ISBN 13 : 9780962202629
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mississippi Scenes written by Elmo Howell and published by Roscoe Langford. This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1148 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1991: Corps of Engineers, North Atlantic Division written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene Stowe
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781934110607
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Land written by Gene Stowe and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of a legal fight in which an all-white jury awarded African Americans a North Carolina estate