ENDNOTES

1. David Evans, "Blues," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; pp. 995-998.

2. Howlin' Wolf, quoted by Paul Williams, album package liner notes, Howlin' Wolf - More Real Folk Blues, Chess 1512, Chess Records 1967.

3. Leander C. Jones, "W.C. Handy," in Wilson & Ferris, p. 1061.

4. Evans, p. 997.

5. Kip Lornell, "Gospel Music, Black," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; pp. 1012-1013.

6. Lornell, p. 1012.

7. William H. Tallmadge, "Fiddle and Fiddlers' Conventions," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; pp. 1056-1057.
8. Great Big Yam Potatoes: Anglo-American Fiddle Music from Mississippi. Tom Rankin, ed. (Jackson: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1985).

9. Mississippi: The WPA Guide to the Magnolia State (Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1988, reprint), 15.

10. Jay Orr, "Fiddle and Fiddler's Conventions," in Ferris and Wilson, p.1056-1057.

11. Chiquita Willis, "Preface," The African American Shape-note & Vocal Music Singing Convention Directory, A Special Publication of Mississippi Folklife, Vol. 27, 1994, p. iii.

12. George Pullen Jackson, White Spirituals of the Southern Uplands (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1933), p. 11.

13. Harry Eskew, "The Sacred Harp," in Ferris and Wilson, pp. 1029-1032.

14. Eskew, pp. 1029-1032; John Quincy Wolf, "The Sacred Harp in Mississippi," Mississippi Folklore Register, Vol. IV, No. 2 (Summer, 1970), pp.58-62; Joe Dan Boyd, "Negro Sacred Harp Songsters in Mississippi," Mississippi Folklore Register, Vol. V, No. 3 (Fall, 1971), pp. 60-83; Buell E. Cobb, Jr., The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978).

15. Bill Malone, "All-Day Singings," in Ferris and Wilson, pp. 1039-1040.

16. Eskew, p. 1031.

17. Eskew, p. 1031.

18. Eskew, p. 1031.

19. William Ferris, "Folklife," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 454.

20. John A. Burrison, "Pottery," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 485.

21. Howard Marshall, "Basketmaking," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 461.

22. Marshall, p. 462.

23. Aimee Schmidt, "Down Around Biloxi: Culture and Identity in the Biloxi Seafood Industry," Mississippi Folklife, Vol. 28, no. 1, p.11.

24. Edith and Harold Holzer, "Patchwork Quilts: Folk Art Relics," Collectors Weekly (Sept. 26, 1972); quoted in Lenice Ingram Bacon, American Patchwork Quilts (New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1973), 76.

25. Bacon, 78-79.

26. Louella McLeod Sanders, "Mississippi Sketches," Mississippi Folklore Register, Volume XX, No. 1 (Spring 1986), pp. 3-12.

27. Bacon, 88.

28. Marie D. Webster, Quilts: Their Story and How to Make Them (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1915), 149.

29. William Ferris, "Folklife," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 452.

30. Ferris, "Folklife," 452.

31. Bruce A. Rosenberg, "Preacher, Black," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 184.

32. Rosenberg, 185.

33. Simon J. Bronner, "Storytelling," in Wilson & Ferris, ed. The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989; p. 488.

34. Eudora Welty, "The Little Store," in Dorothy Abbott, ed., Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth, Vol. II Nonfiction. Jackson: The University Press of Mississippi, 1986; p. 645.

35. Exhibition Session Materials. Signs and Symbols: African Imagery in African-American Quilts from the Rural South. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.

36. Ludlow, L. (1995). Over and Under, Around and Through Teacher's Guide. p. 19. Atlanta: Southern Arts Federation.

37. Exhibition Session Materials. Signs and Symbols: African Imagery in African-American Quilts from the Rural South. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama.

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