Field Hollers And Freedom Songs : Featuring the collected works from the Sweat Equity Investment in the Cotton Kingdom Symposium.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turnipseed, C. Sade.

Series:

Series in American History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Music--History and criticism--Congresses.

African Americans.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism--Congresses.

American literature.

African Americans--History--Congresses.

Cotton picking--United States--History--Congresses.

Cotton picking.

Work songs--United States--History and criticism--Congresses.

Work songs.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, DE : Vernon Art and Science Inc., 2022.

Summary:

"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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Turnipseed, C. Sade Field Hollers And Freedom Songs: The Anthology [PDF]

ISBN:

9781648895821

1648895824

OCLC:

1350687565