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Cheryl Thurber is an interdisciplinary scholar, cultural historian, folklorist, and photographer. She holds an A.B. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an M.A. from University of California, Riverside, both in cultural anthropology. She earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Mississippi with her dissertation entitled, Dixie: A Cultural History of a Song and Place .

Thurber's photographs have been published in the New York Times, World & I, The Journal of American Folklore, Mississippi Folklore Register, Blues Unlimited, Living Blues, Center for Southern Folklore Magazine, Rejoice! The Gospel Music Magazine, and Rolling Stone, as well as in folklore and ethnomusicology textbooks, books on civil rights and African American life, and American Roots Music (2001: Rolling Stone Press). Twenty-five of her photographs were included in Big Road Blues (1981: University of California Press / 1987 reprint: Da Capo Press) by David Evans. Photographs by Cheryl Thurber also have appeared on documentary record albums and CDs on the following labels: Library of Congress, Smithsonian, Phillips Int, Clanka Lanka, Arhoolie, Rounder, High Water, Testament Advent, JEMF, and Dust to Digital. Two hundred photographs are on permanent display at the Mud Island Mississippi River Museum, Memphis Tennessee. Her photographs have previously been exhibited at California, Tennessee and Mississippi libraries, at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi, and are used in several documentaries.

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