William R. Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, Senior Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, and Adjunct Professor of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A former chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has made numerous documentary films and has authored over 100 publications in the fields of folklore, history, literature, and photography. Give My Poor Heart Ease, his book of interviews with Delta blues greats, was published by UNC Press in 2009.
18 Ebooks by William Ferris
William Ferris: Bobby Rush: ‘Blues Singer–Plus’
I try to get the people in my hand, for them to love me, and once I get them in my hand, I can then tell them what I’ve come to tell them. And I come to tell them about the blues. It’s just like a …
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€3.49
‘Those little color snapshots’: William Christenberry
Follow the evolution of the vision and career of one of the South’s foremost photographers.’Santa Claus had brought me and my sister a small Brownie camera in the late 1940s, and I just loaded it …
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€3.49
William Ferris: Give My Poor Heart Ease
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical …
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€21.99
Glenn Hinson & William Ferris: The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this …
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€21.99
William Ferris: The Storied South
The Storied South features the voices–by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing–of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, …
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€21.99
William Ferris: The Bill Ferris Enhanced Omnibus E-Book
This Omnibus Ebook for the first time brings together pioneering folklorist William Ferris’s books on the music and arts of the South.
Included in this ebook are:
Give My Poor Heart Ease: …
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€54.99
William Ferris: The William R. Ferris Reader, Omnibus E-book
Renowned folklorist William R. Ferris has captured the voices of southern musicians, artists, writers, and thinkers for forty years—and we have been proud to publish his work in
Southern Cultures …
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€10.99
William Ferris: The South in Color
Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. …
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€21.99
Timothy Duffy: Blue Muse
The tintype is rooted in more than 150 years of photographic method. In this collection of extraordinary portraits, Timothy Duffy brings new vitality to this old form, capturing powerful images of …
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€32.99
Robert Sacré: Charley Patton
Blues Book of the Year
—26th Annual Living Blues Awards
Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O’Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacré, Arnold …
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€32.99
William Ferris: Give My Poor Heart Ease, Enhanced Ebook
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical …
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€37.46
William Ferris: Give My Poor Heart Ease
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical …
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€71.32
William Ferris & Glenn Hinson: New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this …
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€93.65
Robert Sacre: Charley Patton
Blues Book of the Year -26th Annual Living Blues Awards Contributions by Luther Allison, John Broven, Daniel Droixhe, David Evans, William Ferris, Jim O’Neal, Mike Rowe, Robert Sacre, Arnold Shaw, …
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€37.47
William Ferris: Storied South
The Storied South features the voices–by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing–of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, …
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€75.04
William Ferris: South in Color
Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. …
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€123.66
William Ferris: South in Color
Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. …
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English
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€123.99
William Ferris: The Storied South
The Storied South features the voices–by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing–of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, …
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English
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€21.99
