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Joyner, Charles Winston was born on January 5, 1935 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Son of Winston Granberry and Myrtle Kelly (Paul) Joyner.
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This is the best of cultural history, historical ethnography, folklore and folklife on this serious study of the life of American slaves through the mid-1800's. DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE details all elements of slave life: clothing, food, celebrations, mourning, treatment by masters, and the culture that they created while enslaved.
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(Gives verses and some musical notation for folk songs col...)
Gives verses and some musical notation for folk songs collected in South Carolina. Some of the songs include: McDonald, Poor Anzo, the Scarlet Tree, Lord Bateman, The House Carpenter, Edward, Lord Thomas, Andrew Bartin, Lord Lovel, Barbara Allen, Little Matthew Groves, An Old Man Came Tumbling Home, The Drowsy Sleeper, Down with the Old Cause, and many more.
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Remember Me is a short primer on the coast of Georgia and its unique African cultural heritage. Charles Joyner offers a rich picture of that culture’s stories, songs, and traditions, as well as the nineteenth-century plantation life in which it endured.
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( In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers ...)
In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers on a journey back in time, up the Waccamaw River through the Lowcountry of South Carolina, past abandoned rice fields once made productive by the labor of enslaved Africans, past rice mills and forest clearings into the antebellum world of All Saints Parish. In this slave community, and many others like it, the slaves created a new language, a new religion--indeed, a new culture--from African traditions and American circumstances. From the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the plantation whites and their guests, from quantitative analysis of census and probate records, and above all from slave folklore and oral history, Joyner has recovered an entire society and its way of life. His careful reconstruction of daily life in All Saints Parish is an inspiring testimony to the ingenuity and solidarity of a people who endured in the face of adversity. This anniversary edition of Joyner's landmark study includes a new introduction in which the author recounts his process of writing the book, reflects on its critical and popular reception, and surveys the path of scholarship in slave history in the decades since the book's first publication.
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Joyner, Charles Winston was born on January 5, 1935 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States. Son of Winston Granberry and Myrtle Kelly (Paul) Joyner.
Bachelor, Presbyterian College, 1956. Master of Arts, University South Carolina, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy in History, University South Carolina, 1968.
Doctor of Philosophy in Folklore, University Pennsylvania, 1977. Postdoctoral, Harvard University, 1978.
Professor history and anthropology St. Andrews Presbyterian College, Laurinburg, North Carolina, 1966-1979. Visiting professor history and anthropology University South Carolina, Columbia, 1979-1980. Professor history and anthropology University South Carolina, Coastal Carolina College, Conway, 1980-1986.
Professor history University Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1986-1988. University South Carolina, Coastal Carolina College Coastal Carolina College, University South Carolina, Conway, since 1988. Ford Foundation professor Southern studies University Mississippi, Oxford, 1987.
Visiting professor history University California, Berkeley, 1987. Consultant various television production companies, since 1978. Lecturer in field.
( In Down by the Riverside, Charles Joyner takes readers ...)
( This is the best of cultural history, historical ethnog...)
( Remember Me is a short primer on the coast of Georgia a...)
(Gives verses and some musical notation for folk songs col...)
Member American History Association, Southern History Association (chairman Owsley Prize corporation since 1990) American Folklore Society, Organization American Historians (nominating board since 1987, chairman since 1988).
Married Jean Dusenbury, June 8, 1963. Children: Hannah Ruth, Wesley Winston.