Charleston County Public Library

The storied South, voices of writers and artists, William Ferris

eng

Includes bibliography/discography/filmography (pages 251-258) and index

contains biographical information

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

portraits

index present

non fiction

The storied South

filmographiesbibliographydiscographies

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William Ferris

voices of writers and artists

"Features the voices ... of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in the American cultural firmament, from Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward.... [D]rawn from one-on-one interviews conducted by renowned folklorist William Ferris over the past forty years, the book reveals how storytelling is viscerally tied to southern identity and how the work of these southern or southern-inspired creators has shaped the way Americans think and talk about the South."--Front flap of jacket

Introduction -- Writers: Eudora Welty ; Ernest Gaines ; Robert Penn Warren ; Alice Walker ; Alex Haley ; Margaret Walker ; Sterling Brown -- Scholars: Cleanth Brooks ; John Blassingame ; Charles Seeger ; John Dollard ; C. Vann Woodward -- Musicians: Bobby Rush ; Pete Seeger -- Photographers: Walker Evans ; William Christenberry ; William Eggleston -- Painters: Sam Gilliam ; Ed McGowin ; Benny Andrews ; Carroll Cloar ; Rebecca Davenport ; William Dunlap ; Maud Gatewood ; George Wardlaw ; Julien Binford -- ConclusionCD contents: Eudora Welty, "A good household" (1975) (0:52) -- Eudora Welty, "WPA memories" (1975) (1:47) -- Ernest Gaines, "Creating the voice of Miss Jane Pitman" (1980) (2:56) -- Robert Penn Warren, "The decline in human values" (1979) (2:43) -- Alice Walker, "Regions of the mind and heart" (1994) (0:43) -- Alice Walker, "Integrating southern writers" (1994) (1:06) -- Alex Haley, "The South is a place of hands" (1989) (1:30) -- Margaret Walker, "A memory of Langston Hughes" (1978) (2:14) -- Margaret Walker, "The question of black humanity" (1978) (1:56) -- Sterling Brown, "Not simple North and South" (1979) (4:22) -- Cleanth Brooks, "Accepting the past" (1989) (2:17) -- John Blassingame, "The historian's tasks" (1979) (2:32) -- Charles Seeger, "Memories of Pete" (1975) (1:58) -- John Dollard, "Feelings about the South" (1975) (2:26) -- C. Vann Woodward, "Why historians study the South" (1979) (2:08) -- C. Vann Woodward, "Books aren't accidents" (1979) (1:19) -- Bobby Rush, "The blues to me" (1987) (1:21) -- Pete Seeger, "We shall overcome" (1990) (2:10) -- Walker Evans, "Agee's anger" (1974) (2:23) -- Walker Evans, "The unconscious process" (1974) (1:39) -- William Christenberry, "The profound influence of Southern writers" (1982) (0:31) -- William Eggleston, "Beginnings in 1958" (1976) (0:32) -- William Eggleston, "The value of photographs" (1976) (1:11) -- Sam Gilliam, "Memories of the South" (1983) (1:29) -- Ed McGowin, "On Southern surreal" (1983) (1:34) -- Benny Andrews, "Pictures out of clouds" (1983) (0:53) -- Carroll Cloar, "Childhood imagery" (1983) (1:00) -- Rebecca Davenport, "Appreciating irony" (1983) (1:10) -- William Dunlap, "That narrative business" (1983) (0:28) -- Maud Gatewood, "Africa's given us quite a bit" (1983) (1:19) -- Maud Gatewood, "Sense of place" (1983) (1:31) -- Julien Binford, "Painting the sawmill" (1983) (1:03)DVD contents: Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks (1988) (8:19) -- Eudora Welty in Four women artists (1977) (2:33) -- Robert Penn Warren (1989) (8:38) -- Cleanth Brooks (1989) (11:33) -- C. Vann Woodward (1989) (6:06) -- Bobby Rush (1987) (14:41) -- Pete Seeger (1990) (47:07) -- Painting in the South: artists and regional heritage (1983) (27:01)