
Joyce Marie Jackson
James J. Parsons Endowed Professor
Education
Ph.D. Indiana University, Bloomington
Further Study, Atlanta University
M.M. Ä¢¹½tv
B.M. Ä¢¹½tv
Selected Publications
2003. Life in the Village: A Cultural Memory of the Fazendeville Community. Washington D.C. and New Orleans: U. S. Dept. of the Interior, National Historical Park.
2020. “Continuity of Consciousness: Spirituals and Gospel,� in Rivers of Rhythm: African Americans and the Making of American Music. p. 15-30. Nashville: National Museum of African American Music.
2019. “Blues & Blacks in the Red Stick: Origins, Evolution, and Current Status� Louisiana Folklife Program. https://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/brblues1.html#
2018. “New Orleans Second Line Aesthetics and Identity,â€� in Freedom’s Dance: Social, Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans, by Eric Waters and Karan Celestan, p. 3-21. Baton Rouge: Ä¢¹½tv Press.
2015. “Rockin’ for a Risen Savior: Bakongo and Christian Iconicity in the Louisiana Easter Rock Ritual,� in Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery...� Ed. by Stephen Finley, Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page, Jr., p. 295-331. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.
2014. “Quartets: Jubilee to Gospel,� in African American Music in Cultural Perspective. Ed. by Portia Maultsby and Mellonee Burnim, p. 75-96. New York: Routledge Press.
2014. “Louisiana Cultures: A Creole Mosaic,â€� in The Pelican State. Ed. by Wayne Parent and Ryan Ortega, p. 36-71. Baton Rouge: Ä¢¹½tv Press.
2012. “African American Sacred and Secular Identities in Mississippi’s Piney Woods,� in Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi: The Twentieth Century. Ed. by Shana Walton, p.74-97. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press
2011. “The Great River Road Corridor: Cuisines, Cultures and Communities from the Atlantic World to the Plantation Belt,� Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 21, p. 1-5.
2011. “Beyond Urban Borders: Unveiling New Discourses on the Rural Jazz Narrative in the River Road Region,� Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 21, p. 75-89.
2010. “The Gospel Caravan ,� in Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How the Apollo Theater Shaped American Entertainment. Ed. by Richard Carlin and Kinshasha Holman Conwill, p. 156-163. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Books.
2009. “Easter Rock,� Mardi Gras Indians,� “Quartets, African American,� (3 essays) in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (Folklore Volume). Ed. by Glen Hinson and William Ferris. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
2007. “The Paschall Brothers: On the Right Road Now,� a thirty–two page liner note booklet plus track notes, citations and a bibliography accompanying the CD. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings CD 40176.
2006. “Declaration of Taking Twice: The Fazendeville Community of the Lower Ninth Ward,� American Anthropologist 108, No. 4, (December): 765-780.
2006. “Rockin’ and Rushin’ for Christ: Hidden Transcripts in Diasporic Ritual Performance,� in Caribbean and Southern: Transnational Perspectives on the U.S. South. Southern Anthropological Proceedings, Vol. 38, ed. by Helen Regis, pp. 89-123. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
2005. “Working Both Sides of the Fence: African American Sacred Quartets Enter Realm of Popular Culture,â€� in Bridging Southern Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Ed. by John Lowe, pp. 154-171. Baton Rouge: Ä¢¹½tv Press.
2005. and Fehintola Mosadomi, “Cultural Continuity: Masking Traditions of the Black Mardi Gras Indians and the Yoruba Egungun,� in Orisa: Yoruba Gods and Spiritual Identity. Ed. by Toyin Falola and Ann Genova. Trenton, NJ: African World Press.
1995. “The Changing Nature of Gospel Music: A Southern Case Study,� The African American Review 29, No. 2, p. 185-200.
1993. “Mahalia Jackson� (biographical essay), in Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia. Ed. by Darlene Clark Hine, pp. 620-623. New York: Carlton Publishing Co.
Courses Taught
Urban Ethnography: New Orleans
African American Folklore
Folklore of the African Diaspora
Rituals: Theory, Context and Performance
Black Music in America
Introduction to Folklore