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Journal of the Alabama Folklife Association (https://www.alabamafolklife.org/). Published by NewSouth Books, Montgomery, Alabama, with support from the Folklife Program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Contents: - Roots Running Deep: Picking Mayhaws by Lori A. Sawyer (page 9) - Confronting the Big House and Other Stereotypes in the Short Stories of Ruby Pickens Tartt by Tina Naremore Jones (page 19) - Going to the Boomalatta1: Narrating Black Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama by Kern Jackson (page 38) - In Memoriam: Bicky McLain, 1905–2004 by John Bealle (page 75) - Book and CD Review by Anne Kimzey (page 77) --- Judge Jackson and the Colored Sacred Harp by Joe Dan Boyd --- The Colored Sacred Harp and the African American Shape Note Tradition produced by Steve Grauberger - Book Review by Alan Brown (page 80) --- Mobile Ghosts: Alabama’s Haunted Port City by Elizabeth Parker - Book Review by Joey Brackner (page 83) --- Out of Sight: The Rise of African American Popular Music, 1889–1895 by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff - Recording Review by Jim Carnes (page 85) --- Traditional Musics of Alabama, Volume 4: Wiregrass Notes Revised, Alabama Traditions 204, produced by Steve Grauberger

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Alabama Folklife Collection

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Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130