Field hollers and freedom songs the anthology : featuring the collected works from the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium / edited by C. Sade Turnipseed.
| Author/creator | Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium |
| Other author | Turnipseed, C. Sade. |
| Other author | Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium 2018 : Itta Bena, Miss.), |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2022] |
| Description | xx, 270 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Series in American history Series in American history. ^A1470809 |
| Contents | Introduction / Carroll Van West -- Field hollers and freedom songs / C. Sade Turnipseed -- Field hollers : a look at blues during the antebellum / Delridge LaVeon Hunter -- "I had $17 dollars in my pocket" / Carla Keaton -- Plantations, plantocracy, and the Cotton Kingdom / Thomas J. Durant, Jr. -- Why so blue? The cotton narrative on quilt / Betty Crawford -- Cotton sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta as illuminated in the film Sharecrop Delta cotton / Claudia Stack -- Field hollers and jazz styling : the transformation of music from Africa to America / Tanya Y. Price -- The representation of the rural-urban nexus in African-American contemporary prose / Richardd J. Mushi -- True Pan-Africanism a panacea for Eurocentric threats and the modern-day slavery : a comparative study of the cultural heritage of Badagry Lagos and Mississippi Delta / Olutimi James Osasona -- Resistance and rebellion in Jamaica / Marline A. Martin -- Songs of indignation : Negro prottesters during the old order : songs of the lyric poets / Delridge LaVeon Hunter -- A tribute to Grand-Mama Nem / Skylar J. Hinton -- Monuments, flags is Mississippi a "lost cause?" / C. Sade Turnipseed -- The legacy of lynching in America / C. Sade Turnipseed -- Prescription for the heart / Golden Winter -- A different path to the sacred : another call to action / Reginald Martin Crenshaw -- Cotton, chemicals, and agricultural justice / Brian Williams -- We celebrate their survival! / Clifton L. Taulbert -- African American Native American music syncretism / Mark Howell -- Escapist (freedom) songs / Delridge LaVeon Hunter -- In the cotton fields (country girl) / Maxine Fair -- I believe in blues / C. Sade Turnipseed -- Time to build a monument for cultural heritage and memory of cotton pickers of America / C. Sade Turnipseed -- Cotton pickers of America looking for a brighter side / Hermon Johnson -- In conclusion : An ode to the chit'lin / C. Sade Turnipseed -- Epilogue / Delridge LaVeon Hunter. |
| Abstract | "Taking place annually in "the most southern place on earth," aka, the "Cotton Kingdom," the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium offers a platform to honor, celebrate, and recognize the legacy of the African Americans who labored in the cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta. The symposium intends to trigger discussions and provide a space where the histories and contributions of those African Americans can be heard and learned from. Born in the antebellum south, the "soul of America" came to be through the tearful occupation of planting, chopping, picking and ginning cotton, where it was then brined within a system of enslavement, sharecropping and international trade that in so many ways provided America its "greatness." Carefully compiled from works presented at the symposium, this anthology looks to expose the tortured "cotton-pickin' spirit" embedded in America's soul. A spirit that is rendered in song, chants, spoken word and field hollers, and revealed in this volume through the selected articles, lyric poetry, proverbs, speeches, slave narratives and workshop proposals. The rich and varied content of this book reflects the uniqueness of not only the Mississippi Delta but also the histories of those who lived and worked there."-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "This collection of writings is selected from the 6th and 7th edition of the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium ..."--Preface. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020944271 |
| ISBN | 1622735048 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781622735044 (hardcover) |
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