Jerrilyn McGregory explained

Jerrilyn McGregory is a professor of African American folklore at Florida State University and an author. She wrote Wiregrass Country and Downhome Gospel; African American Spriritual Activism in Wiregrass Country.^{[1] [2]} She has been researching celebrations of Boxing Day in the Caribbean.

Stephen Shearon in a 2012 review in American Music described the book as "significant and insightful, but flawed".^[3] Her book includes coverage of Maypole plaiting.^[4]

Bibliography

• Book: McGregory . Jerrilyn . Downhome gospel : African American spiritual activism in Wiregrass Country . 2012. University Press of Mississippi . Jackson . 9781617033186. 814407023.
• Book: McGregory . Jerrilyn . Wiregrass country . 1997 . University Press of Mississippi . Jackson . 9780878059263. Folklife in the South series. 1001504094.
• "Spatialized Ontologies: Toni Morrison's Science Fiction Traces in Gothic Spaces" Gothic Science Fiction: 1980-2010. Eds. Sara Wasson and Emily Alder. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011.
• "'The Rest Is Up to You and Me': Sunday Morning Band and Ritual Identity in the Florida Panhandle." The Florida Folklife Reader. Ed. Tina Bucuvalas. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
• "Fearless Ezekiel: Alterity in the Detective Fiction of Walter Mosley." Finding a Way Home: Critical Essays on Walter Mosley. Eds. Derek Maus and Owen Brady. Jackson; University Press of Mississippi, 2008.
• "Playing in the Dark: Under the Big Top, the Africanist Presence." The Many Faces of Circus. Ed. Robert Sugarman. London: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.
• "Nalo Hopkinson's Approach to Speculative Fiction." FEMSPEC, Vol. 6.1, 2005: 3-17.^[1]
• "The Old Ship of Zion; The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora"^[5]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jerrilyn McGregory . Faculty of English . Florida State University . 10 November 2020.
2. Web site: Jerrilyn McGregory . American Folklore Society . College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University-Bloomington . 10 November 2020.
3. Shearon . Stephen . Downhome Gospel: African American Spiritual Activism in Wiregrass Country. By Jerrilynn McGregory . American Music . 2012 . 30 . 4 . 523. University of Illinois Press. 10.5406/americanmusic.30.4.0523 .
4. News: McKay . Elisa . STX Students Explore their Heritage at Culture Pop-Up Dances of the V.I. . 10 November 2020 . The St Thomas Source US Virgin Islands . VI Source . 16 December 2019.
5. Web site: Jerrilyn mcgregory. scholar.google.com. 10 November 2020.