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131
132
Chernoff, p. 143.
133
Alabama Heritage Online, Fall 2003.
134
Ibid.
135 Yronwode.
136
137 Stephen C. LaVere, accompanying booklet, Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings, Columbia
Records, 1975, 1990; Robert Johnson biography, Delta Haze.com, 1998.
138
139
Thompson, p. 109.
140
Ibid., p. 20.
141
Ibid., p. 19.
142
Ibid., p. 14.
143
144
145
Chicago Innerview.
146
iew with Robert Jr. Lockwood.
147
148 Special thanks to Steve LaVere for this insight.
149
150
Ferris, p. 3.
151
152
153
154
aVere.
155
156
Phoenix New Times, April 4, 1996.
157
-published in Readings In
African-American Language: Aspects, Features And Perspectives, Ed. Nathanial Norment, (New York:
Peter Lang, 2003).
158
University Northridge, Slavery In America.org.
159 Dillard, p. 35.
160
Dillard, p. 36.
161
Holloway and Vass, p. 97.
162
Ferris, p. 123.
163
A Study of the Non-Standard English by William
Labov et al.; in Dillard, p. 135.
164
Jones, p. 27.
165
From Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol 13, 19
Essays in Medieval Studies, Vol 13, 1996, by Alta Cools Halama.
166
Blues Revue, Winter 1994, pg. 23.
167
168 All snaps from Ibid.
169 Jones, p. 35.
170 Thompson, p. 63.
171
172
173 Holloway and Vass, p. 140.
174 Hoodoo in Theory and Practice: An Introduction to African American Rootwork, by Catherine
Yronwode, published online at Lucky Mojo.com.
175 Yronwode.
176 Thompson, p. 104.
177 Jones, p. 219.
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