The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists - Tapa dura

[A] rich collection developed over 40 years. . . . [A] moving and eloquent book.--Publishers Weekly Ferris' idea of an essential South, layered by a narrative sensibility in music, literature and the visual arts, sings to the better angels of our nature. . . . Yet reading this remarkable book one realizes, too, that a brooding, unsettled nature about the South is still sadly with us.--New Orleans Magazine Ferris offers a collection of his interviews with writers and artists he has come to know personally during 40 years of tramping around his native land.--Atlanta Journal-Constitution A capstone of this historian's career. . . . Ferris has created a thoroughly upbeat portrait of regional culture.--Oral History Review The book is a one-of-a-kind trove.--Visual Communication Quarterly [A] wonderful work. Required for viewers and readers interested in Southern folkways and culture.--Library Journal starred review The Storied South is a book you could read on and on and on.--Flycatcher [A] treat for lovers of Southern literature.--Wilmington Star News Not to be missed. . . . This collection is a triumph of intelligent and provocative conversation.--Jackson Clarion-Ledger In addition to being a book that preserves and represents the voices that form the intellectual foundation of southern studies, The Storied South is filled with warmth, humor, and fond memories.--Arkansas Review An immensely important book that is passionate and keenly insightful and that is a crucial addition to the growing body of work on the South.--The Journal of Southern History The Storied South bring[s] these tales to life. . . . With Ferris as a guide, readers will get a revealing look at the region before air-conditioning and chain businesses, smartphones and corporate monoliths changed it forever.--Raleigh News & Observer [A] comprehensive collection of accounts by these foundational southern artists. . . . Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.--Choice Southern voices heard again.--The Daily Tar Heel Compiles decades' worth of deeply personal interviews with many of the South's greatest luminaries. . . . . And thanks to an included CD and DVD, their voices leap off the page and come to life.--Garden and Gun An excellent, authoritative record of how William Ferris mediates and meditates on Southern exceptionalism.--Valley Voices [Ferris's] latest book, The Storied South, was published this summer, and includes such well-known artists and thinkers as Eudora Welty, Pete Seeger, William Eggleston and Alice Walker. . . . Storied includes a DVD and a CD of interviews that Ferris conducted during the past 40 years, as well as his photography.--Brooks Bulletin A valuable addition to both public and academic libraries for their Southern Culture collections. Overall the book would be of interest to the general reader, as well as the scholar of Southern Studies.--Tennessee Libraries An extraordinary book that captures the very essence of life in the South--the landscape, the weather, and perhaps most important, the people, their voices and their stories.--Journal of Southern History Intimate and moving. . . . Undoubtedly a volume that should be included in the personal library of every Southerner or lover of the Southern storytelling tradition. When the final page of The Storied South is turned, readers will truly feel like they have been sitting on the front porch listening to the voices and stories of these legendary Southern icons.--Click Magazine

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, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn 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. The Storied South offers a unique, intimate opportunity to sit at the table with these men and women and learn how they worked and how they perceived their art. The volume also features 45 of Ferris's striking photographic portraits of the speakers and a CD and a DVD of original audio and films of the interviews. |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, Pete Seeger, and Alice Walker to William Eggleston, Bobby Rush, and C. Vann Woodward. Masterfully drawn 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.