{"id":902,"date":"2018-01-15T03:19:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fancymag.com\/?p=902"},"modified":"2018-01-15T03:19:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T03:19:57","slug":"mississippi-women-in-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/?p=902","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Women In Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_897\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-897\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-897\" src=\"http:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1-334x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1-334x500.jpg 334w, https:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1-324x485.jpg 324w, https:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1-416x623.jpg 416w, https:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/fancymag.com\/superfancy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Mississippi-Women-Invite-1.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-897\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>MISSISSIPPI WOMEN IN BLUES<\/strong><br \/>Gallery space in the Leontyne Price Library at Rust College<br \/>Feb. 1st &#8211; Feb. 28, 2018<br \/>opening reception Thursday Feb.1, 2018 5 pm-7 pm<br \/>150 Rust Avenue Holly Springs, Ms 38635<br \/>Open to the public<br \/>In celebration of Black History month FANCY! and The Son and Friends of Junior Kimbrough along with Leontyne Price Library at Rust College present <br \/>Mississippi Women in Blues an exhibit focusing on the presence of Afro-American women in the Mississippi Blues world. <br \/>A presentation of photographs, films and archival material shines a light on these mysterious creatures. Many were popular artists in their day but have fallen into obscurity, and off the radar.<br \/>Afro -American Women are ubiquitous figures within the Mississippi Blues community. Black females appear as muse, singer, musician, audience member, dancer, manger, and club worker, but who remain largely uncredited and invisible.<br \/>Default players never raising to the ranks as band member. Only seen as willing and capable players, not Blues musicians.<br \/>The exhibition focuses on Holly Springs residents musicians Ellen Jefferies and Mary Coleman. Also Como area ladies Jessie Mae Hemphill and Sharde Thomas who have gained international recognition for the their music. <br \/>Photos, films, and other archival material on view was provided by private collections, and learning institutions. All funding for the exhibition was granted through private donation, or in kind funds, and with the generous support from<br \/>Rust College Leontyne Price Library, UNC Wilson Library Folklife Collection.<br \/>Articles on view provided by<br \/>Rust College, Leontyne Price Library<br \/>Special Collection Dr. William A. Mc Millan<br \/>University of Memphis<br \/>McWherter Library<br \/>Special Collections, Memphis Musical Heritage<br \/>Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library, Memphis, Tenn.<br \/>Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYC<br \/>University Of North Carolina Chapel Hill<br \/>Wilson Library, Special Collections, Southern Folklife Collection<br \/>Center For Southern Folklore, Memphis, Tenn.<br \/>University of Mississippi, Blues Archive, Oxford, Ms<br \/>Private collections of Carla Robinson, Mrs. Judy Jacoby, John Shaw and Adam Lore<br \/>Photographs by folklorist Cheryl Thurber, William Ferris<br \/>Master photographers Bill Steber, Yancey Allison<br \/>Films by William Ferris, Judy Peiser, David Evans<br \/>Research by Wanda Pegues<br \/>Curated by Amy Verdon and Daniel Wood<br \/>Sponsored by FANCY! and The Son and Friends of Junior Kimbrough<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fancymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}