Jerrilyn McGregory

Jerrilyn McGregory was 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] She passed away on 6 August 2025.

Writings

• McGregory, Jerrilyn (2012). Downhome gospel : African American spiritual activism in Wiregrass Country. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   9781617033186. OCLC   814407023.
• McGregory, Jerrilyn (1997). Wiregrass country. Folklife in the South series. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. ISBN   9780878059263. OCLC   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]

References

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