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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,â€� 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 Statusâ€� 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,â€� in Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: “There is a Mystery...â€� Ed. by Stephen Finley, Margarita Guillory and Hugh Page, Jr., p. 295-331. The Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers.  

2014. “Quartets: Jubilee to Gospel,â€� 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,â€� 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,â€� Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 21, p. 1-5.  

2011. “Beyond Urban Borders: Unveiling New Discourses on the Rural Jazz Narrative in the River Road Region,â€� Louisiana Folklore Miscellany 21, p. 75-89.  

2010. “The Gospel Caravan ,â€� 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,â€� Mardi Gras Indians,â€� “Quartets, African American,â€� (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,â€� 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,â€� American Anthropologist 108, No. 4, (December): 765-780.  

2006. “Rockin’ and Rushin’ for Christ: Hidden Transcripts in Diasporic Ritual Performance,â€� 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,â€� 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,â€� The African American Review 29, No. 2, p. 185-200.  

1993. “Mahalia Jacksonâ€� (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

Contact

243 Howe-Russell-Kniffen Geoscience Complex
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Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6078
Fax: 225-578-4420
jjackso@lsu.edu

 

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