William Ferris

Biographic Data

ID154591
NAMEWilliam Ferris
GIVEN NAMESWilliam
FAMILY NAMEFerris
SIGNATUREFERRIS W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Mississippi
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • Southern Literature

    Open AccessWilliam FerrisARTICLEDaedalus2012References: 4

    The blending of oral traditions, visual arts, and music has influenced how Southern writers shape their region's narrative voice. In the South, writing and storytelling intersect. Mark Twain introduced readers to these storytellers in “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Twain blends both black and white voices within Huck's consciousness and awareness – in Huck's speech and thoughts – and in his dialogues with Jim. A narrative link exists between t…

  • Leavin' a Testimony

    William Ferris, Patsy CravensARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History2007

  • Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.

    Lacy K Ford, Charles Reagan Wilson et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1991

    The American South is a geographical entity, a historical fact, a place in imagination, and homeland of an array of Americans who consider themselves southerners. The region is often shrouded in romance and myth, but its realities are as intriguing, as intricate, as its legends.The Encyclopedia of Southern is the first attempt ever notes U.S. News & World Report, describe every aspect of a region's life and thought, impact of its history and poli…

  • Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Louis D Rubin, Charles Reagan Wilson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1991

  • Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    R Gerald Alvey, Charles Reagan Wilson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1991

  • Encyclopedia of Southern Culture

    Open AccessThomas A Green, William FerrisREVIEWSouth Central Review1990

  • Looking at the blues

    William Ferris, Ruth A BanesARTICLEPopular Music & Society1990

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia

    Deborah S Gardner, James H Marsh et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1990Cited by: 1

    The Canadian Encyclopedia. Ed. by James H. Marsh. (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988. 4 vols, xxxvi + 2736 pp. $175.00/set, Can.) and The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Ed. by Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. xxi + 1634 pp. $49.95.) Deborah S. Gardner Deborah S. Gardner Encyclopedia of New York City New-York Historical Society and Yale University Press Search for other works by this author …

  • Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

    Samella Lewis, William FerrisARTICLEAfrican Arts1987

  • Possum, Oh, Possum

    Kip Lornell, Vaughan Webb et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1987

  • Folk Music and Modern Sound

    Robert B Winans, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEAmerican Music1985

  • Oxford summer night

    William FerrisARTICLERevue française d’études…1985

  • Afro-American Folk Art and Crafts

    Trudier Harris, William FerrisARTICLEWestern Folklore1985

  • Folk Music and Modern Sound

    Portia K Maultsby, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEYearbook for Traditional Music1985

  • Blues from the Delta

    André J M Prévos, André Prévos et al.ARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1984

  • Folk Music and Modern Sound

    Neil V Rosenberg, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984

  • Local Color

    Kristin G Congdon, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984

  • American Popular Culture

    Doris Evans Mcginty, Larry N Landrum et al.ARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1983

  • Folk Music and Modern Sound

    Ray Allen, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1983Cited by: 5

  • Blues from the Delta

    Simon J Bronner, William FerrisARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1981

    William Ferris, director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, has written a book as deep as the blues: rich in conversation, reference, history, and firsthand experience with blues musicians and the culture that informs the music. The poetry, games, house parties, religious and secular traditions of black life in the Delta are explored in living prose that is also a work of immense scholarship

  • Right on

    Kip Lornell, Michael Haralambos et al.ARTICLEEthnomusicology1981

  • Four Women Artists

    Neil R Grobman, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1978

  • Give My Poor Heart Ease

    David Evans, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1977

    A 1975 account of the blues experience through the recollections and performances of B.B. King, James Son Thomas, Shelby Poppa Jazz Brown, James Blood Shelby, Cleveland Broom Man Jones, and inmates from Parchman prison

  • Two Black Churches

    David Evans, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1977

    TWO BLACK CHURCHES is based on fieldwork Bill Ferris conducted at a church in Vicksburg, Mississippi and at a church in New Haven, Conn. Footage includes a full immersion baptism, congregation members and preachers at both churches discussing their call to the faith, and scenes from worship services at both churches. The film contrasts the two approaches to worship at each church

  • I Ain't Lying

    David Evans, William Ferris et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1977

    16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The stories include include folk and religious tales, jokes, toast telling sessions, and characters from African American oral tradition