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Ricky Cox is a historian, educator, folklorist, and musician in the United States.[1] He taught at Radford University[2] and is now retired.[2] He received the inaugural Appalachian studies teaching award from the Appalachian Studies Association.[3] He co-authored The Water Powered Mills of Floyd County, Virginia and co-edited A Handbook on Appalachia.[4]

Cox said his mother had 10 sisters who were all singers and that he thought "even their sewing machines were singers."[4] He studied at Radford University.[5]

Cox has lived in Floyd County, Virginia.[6] He performed at a Mary Draper Ingles remembrance event at the Wilderness Road Regional Museum in 2019.[7] He reviewed University of Tennessee librarian Richard Saunders' book on Harry Harrison Kroll.[8]

Cox was a contributing part of the 1987 Appalachian Studies Conference.[9] He has written articles for the Journal of Appalachian Studies.[10]

Bibliography

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  • The Water-Powered Mills of Floyd County, co-author with Frank Webb[11]
  • A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region, co-editor (2006)[12]
  • Appalachia in the Classroom, contributor[13]
  • Encyclopedia of Appalachia, contributor[14]
  • The Poetics of Appalachian Space, contributor[15]
  • "Appalachian Studies and the Native Student: Resource or Refuge?", Appalachian Heritage, The University of North Carolina Press, Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1986 pages 32–35, 10.1353/aph.1986.0003[16]

References

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  1. ^ "Appalachian Stories & Songs w/ Ricky Cox". Visit Floyd Virginia.
  2. ^ a b "Ricky Cox '86, M.A. '90: Brighten all the way".
  3. ^ "RU professor honored with inaugural Appalachian studies teaching award".
  4. ^ a b "Appalachian Folk Songs with Ricky Cox". November 17, 2014.
  5. ^ "Contributors In This Issue". Appalachian Heritage. 14 (4): 79–80. October 22, 1986. doi:10.1353/aph.1986.0044 – via Project MUSE.
  6. ^ "Story and Song Event with Ricky Cox & Friends - The Floyd Country Store".
  7. ^ "Events - Wilderness Road Regional Museum". wildernessroadregionalmuseum.com/. 20 March 2024.
  8. ^ Cox, Ricky (November 7, 2012). "Never Been Rich: The Life and Work of a Southern Ruralist Writer, Harry Harrison Kroll (review)". West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies. 6 (2): 91–92. doi:10.1353/wvh.2012.0020. S2CID 161063965 – via Project MUSE.
  9. ^ "Remembrance, Reunion, and Revival | Helen Roseberry". University of North Carolina Press.
  10. ^ "Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association | Parks Lanier Jr". University of North Carolina Press.
  11. ^ "Ricky Cox to give lecture on the water-powered mills of Floyd County | New River Valley | roanoke.com". roanoke.com. 12 November 2016.
  12. ^ Edwards, Grace Toney; Asbury, Joann Aust; Cox, Ricky L. (2006). A Handbook to Appalachia: An Introduction to the Region. Univ. of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9781572334595.
  13. ^ "Appalachia in the Classroom: Teaching the Region". Ohio University Press • Swallow Press.
  14. ^ http://appalachianstudies.org/policies/radford-university-resolution.pdf
  15. ^ Table of Contents: The Poetics of Appalachian space /. University of Tennessee Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-87049-692-9. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  16. ^ Cox, Ricky (January 16, 1986). "Appalachian Studies and the Native Student: Resource or Refuge?". Appalachian Heritage. 14 (4): 32–35. doi:10.1353/aph.1986.0003. S2CID 145402346 – via Project MUSE.
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