University Press of Mississippi

Mule Trader: Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules and Men by William R. Ferris Foreword by Eudora Welty Ray Lum (1891-1977) was an American original, a one-of-a-kind figure who seems to have stepped...

In the United States, Ishmael Reed, Leslie Marmon Silko, Ralph Ellison, N. Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Jessica Hagedorn are among the...

A revisionary study of Mississippi's late nineteenth-century image as a one-party state of Democrats.Author: Stephen CresswellPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Jan 01,...

In 1732 Ambrose Madison, grandfather of the future president, languished for weeks in a sickbed then died. The death, soon after his arrival on the plantation, bore hallmarks of what planters assumed...

Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines edited by Jeffrey H. Jackson and Stanley C. Pelkey with essays by Michael A. Antonucci, James A. Davis, Charles Freeman, Helen Marsh Jeffries, Michael J...

Musical Life in Guyana is the first in-depth study of Guyanese musical life. It is also a richly detailed description of the social, economic, and political conditions that have encouraged and...

In October 2001, an unlikely gathering of musicians calling itself the MuzikMafia took place at the Pub of Love in Nashville, Tennessee. "We had all been beat up pretty good by the 'industry' and we...

A touching tribute to life on the road and in the studio with the inventor of newgrass musicAuthor: Bob CarlinPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Apr 23, 2024Number of Pages:...

An analysis of how codes of modernity are reflected in detective thrillers and make them believable The detective novel is both a product of the twentieth century and a response to the needs of...

Nairne s Muskhogean Journals: The 1708 Expedition to the Mississippi River, printed from a previously unpublished manuscript in the British Library, is the earliest known account in English of...

With essays by Hans Kellner, Lois Parkinson Zambora, Mark Parker, Michael Cohen, Joan DelFattore, Pierre L. Horn, H. Aram Veeser, Helen T. Bennett, Jocelyn Mann, Deborah Parker, Roger Rollin, and...

With contributions by Letha Wood Audhuy, Ian Brown, Don E. Carleton, Alfred E. Lemmon, Jeanne Middleton Forsythe, Milton B. Newton, Jr., Estill Curtis Pennington, Morton Rothstein, Julie Sass, and...

During and after the Harlem Renaissance, two intellectual forces--nationalism and Marxism--clashed and changed the future of African American writing. Current literary thinking says that writers with...

During World War I, in the period of the Red Scare, and throughout the Great Depression, the army's domestic spy agency mounted an extensive surveillance campaign focused on civilians and groups...

Sara Le Menestrel explores the role of music in constructing, asserting, erasing, and negotiating differences based on the notions of race, ethnicity, class, and region. She discusses established...

These interviews cover the career to date of Neil Jordan (b. 1950), easily the most renowned filmmaker working in contemporary Irish cinema. Jordan began as a fiction writer, winning the...

Fire-cat masks, earth mother icons, henna tattoos, ankhs, and water altars these objects may sound like the inventory in an ancient druid's sanctuary. But they are part of the sacred reliquary...

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to...

In the twenty-first century, the influence of neoliberalism, the belief that society benefits when both individuals and corporations are free to maximize their talents in the service of responding to...

In 1925 William Faulkner began his professional writing career in earnest while living in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He had published a volume of poetry (The Marble Faun), had written a few...

New York and its folklore scholars hold an important place in the history of the discipline. In New York dialogue between folklore researchers in the academy and those working in the public arena has...

An examination of the fireworks and folderol that erupt when folklore and current events collide Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These expressions...

"Poetry, I have insisted, is ultimately mythology, the telling of the soul's adventure in time and history." Newslore is folklore that comments on and hinges on knowledge of current events. These...

A controversial journalist's experiences while working as editor for African American publications in Chicago.Author: Ben BurnsPublisher: University Press of MississippiPublication Date: Jan 01,...

Travelog, social commentary, and journey to self-discovery, the story of a black Englishman's amazing trek through Dixie to connect with his racial identity In 1997 Gary Younge explored the American...

Musicians and music scholars rightly focus on the sounds of the blues and the colorful life stories of blues performers. Equally important and, until now, inadequately studied are the lyrics. The...

Winner of the 2008 Chicago Folklore Prize 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...

"Within the short period of a year, she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838. Such...

This reflective autobiographical book details Kathryn Tucker Windham's pleasures and her challenging struggles in the world of southern newsrooms. Though not a crusader or a trailblazer for women's...

Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the...