Draft:Ricky Cox


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

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

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

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