Scholarship
Gregg has written extensively on the American South, slavery, labor, and traditional music. Below is a selected bibliography of his publications.
| Books |
| Searching for Jimmie Strother: A Tale of Music, Murder, and Memory. University of Virginia Press, 2024. |
| American City, Southern Place: A Cultural History of Antebellum Richmond. University of Georgia Press, 2000. |
| In Bondage and Freedom: Antebellum Black Life in Richmond, Virginia. Valentine Museum, 1986. |
| Articles and Essays |
| America on the Eve of the Civil War, edited by Edward L. Ayers and Carolyn R. Martin, 2010. |
| Entry on Richmond in the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 2: Geography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. |
| "African, American, Virginian: The Shaping of Black Memory in Antebellum Virginia, 1790-1860," in Where These Memories Grow: History, Memory, and Southern Identity. University of North Carolina Press, 2000. |
| “Liberty and Slavery: Richmond’s Place in the African American Diaspora,” in John Saillant, ed., Afro-Virginian History and Culture. Cross currents in African American History.New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999. |
| “Mapping the Terrain of Black Richmond,”co-authored with Elsa Barkley Brown, Journal of Urban History on “The New African American Urban History,” vol. 21, no. 3 (March 1995): 296–346.Also appeared in Kenneth W. Goings and Raymond A. Mohl, eds., The New African American Urban History. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. |
| "The Working People of Richmond: Life and Labor in an Industrial City, 1865–1922," Labor's Heritage vol. 3, no. 2 (April1991): 42–65 . |
| Music Publications |
| " Making Music with Sunshine Sue," The Uncommonwealth, 2023 |
| "The Musical Million: The Ruebush-Kieffer Company, Singing School, and the Birth of Southern Gospel," The Uncommonwealth, 2018 |
| "Richmond's Top 5 Pre-1960 Musical Moments," Style Weekly, 2014 |
| " The Bristol Sessions," Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, 2010 |
| "William Moore," "Jimmie Strother," and "Tarter and Gay." Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues (2005) |
| "On the Beach of Waikiki: Hopewell's Tubize Royal Hawaiian Orchestra" (with Ron Curry). Virginia Cavalcade 51, no. 3 (Summer 2002) |
| "Jimmie Strother, Virginia Songster." 64 Magazine (Jan. 2002) |
| "William Horton Barker" (with Vaughan Webb). Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol 1 (2002) |
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