Jane Hicks Gentry

Author : Betty N. Smith
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813184081

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Jane Hicks Gentry by Betty N. Smith Pdf

"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.

Author : Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781469666273

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Wayfaring Strangers by Fiona Ritchie,Doug Orr Pdf

From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to resettle in the United States. Many of these Scots-Irish immigrants made their way into the mountains of the southern Appalachian region. They brought with them a wealth of traditional ballads and tunes from the British Isles and Ireland, a carrying stream that merged with sounds and songs of English, German, Welsh, African American, French, and Cherokee origin. Their enduring legacy of music flows today from Appalachia back to Ireland and Scotland and around the globe. Ritchie and Orr guide readers on a musical voyage across oceans, linking people and songs through centuries of adaptation and change.

Author : William Bernard McCarthy,Cheryl Oxford,Joseph Daniel Sobol
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807844438

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Jack in Two Worlds by William Bernard McCarthy,Cheryl Oxford,Joseph Daniel Sobol Pdf

The "Jack" known to all of us from "Jack and the Beanstalk" is the hero of a cycle of tales brought to this country from the British Isles. Jack in Two Worlds is a unique collection that brings together eight of these stories as transcribed from ac

Author : Pauline Greenhill,Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313088131

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Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes] by Pauline Greenhill,Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan Pdf

From the stone age to the cyber age, women and men have experienced the world differently. Out of a cosmos of goddesses and she-devils, earth mothers and madonnas, witches and queens, saints and whores, a vast body of women's folklore has come into bloom. International in scope and drawing on more than 130 expert contributors, this encyclopedia reviews the myths, traditions, and beliefs central to women's daily lives. More than 260 alphabetically arranged entries cover the lore of women across time, space, and life. Students of history, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, literature, and world cultures will value this encyclopedia as an indispensable guide to women's folklore. In addition, there are entries on women's folklore and folklife in 15 regions of the world, such as the Caribbean, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Entries provide cross-references and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected bibliography of print and electronic resources. Students learning about history, world cultures, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, and literature will welcome this companion to the daily life of women across time and continents.

Author : Norm Cohen,Carson Cohen,Anne Dhu McLucas
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781987207286

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An American Singing Heritage by Norm Cohen,Carson Cohen,Anne Dhu McLucas Pdf

This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey of Roud’s Folk Song Index, catalogues of commercial early country (or "hillbilly") recordings, and relevant archival collections. The editors selected sources for transcriptions in a broad range of singing styles and representing many regions of the United States. The selections attempt to avoid the biases of previous collections and provide a fresh group of examples, many heretofore unseen in print. The sources for the transcriptions are recordings of traditional musicians from the 1920s through the early 1940s drawn from (1) commercial recordings of "hillbilly" musicians, and (2) field recordings in the collection of the Library of Congress’s Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the Archive of Folk Culture. Each transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing essay discussing the song’s history and influence, recording and performance information (whenever available), and an examination of the tune. The edition begins with a substantive essay about the history of folk song recordings and folk song scholarship, and the nature of traditional vocal music in the United States.

Author : Rudy Abramson,Jean Haskell
Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
Page : 1852 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:49015003139194

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Encyclopedia of Appalachia by Rudy Abramson,Jean Haskell Pdf

"The Encyclopedia details subjects traditionally associated with Appalachia - folklore, handcrafts, mountain music, food, and coal mining - but goes far beyond regional stereotypes to treat such wide-ranging topics as the aerospace industry, Native American foodways, ethnic diversity in the coalfields, education reform, linguistic variation, and the contested notion of what it means to be Appalachian, both inside and outside the region." "Researched and developed by the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University, this 1,864-page compendium includes all thirteen states that constitute the northern, central, and southern subregions of Appalachia - from New York to Mississippi. With entries on everything from Adventists to zinc mining, the Encyclopedia of Appalachia is a one-stop guide to all things Appalachian."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Appalachian Region
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021207373

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Journal of Appalachian Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : American literature
ISBN : UVA:X006159672

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Appalachian Heritage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Orville Hicks
Publisher : Parkway Publishers, Inc.
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Jack tales
ISBN : PSU:000064209944

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Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns by Orville Hicks Pdf

"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : IND:30000100394539

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Now and Then by Anonim Pdf

Author : Roger deV. Renwick,Sigrid Rieuwerts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Ballads
ISBN : IND:30000111228486

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Ballad Mediations by Roger deV. Renwick,Sigrid Rieuwerts Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000088006451

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North Carolina Folklore Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000128797564

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Arv by Anonim Pdf

Author : Music Library Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015061586445

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Notes by Music Library Association Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Appalachian Region, Southern
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213188134

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Appalachian Journal by Anonim Pdf

A regional studies review.