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Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
ISBN : 1617035319
Author : Michael E. Birdwell,W. Calvin Dickinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813137353
Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss an extensive array of subjects, including popular music, movies, architecture, folklore, religion, and literature. Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars such as Lynwood Montell, Charles Wolfe, Allison Ensor, and Jeannette Keith uncover fascinating stories and personalities as they explore topics including wartime hero Alvin C. York, Socialist Party Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Kate Brockford Stockton, and even a thriving nudist colony, the Timberline Lodge.
Author : Jeanette Keith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807845264
Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennes
Author : Michael Birdwell,W. Calvin Dickinson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0813123097
Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1572335459
Essays by various authors detailing the richness of music that has emanated from Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky since the 1700's.
Author : Jeanette Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.)
ISBN : OCLC:25720795
Author : Jeanette Keith
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862407
Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of the family's sustenance. But the arrival of the railroad in 1890 transformed the local economy. Farmers battled town dwellers for control of community institutions, while Progressives called for cultural, political, and economic modernization. Keith demonstrates how these conflicts affected the region's mobilization for World War I, and she argues that by the 1920s shifting gender roles and employment patterns threatened traditionalists' cultural hegemony. According to Keith, religion played a major role in the adjustment to modernity, and local people united to support the 'Monkey Law' as a way of confirming their traditional religious values.
Author : Calvin Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000667736
Author : United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Regional planning
ISBN : SRLF:D0002452779
Author : William Lynwood Montell
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1572330848
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and a half of life in the Upper Cumberland. Montell organized his material according to the topics that dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the traditional ways of people. First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area that have occured since the book's initial appearance. The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland and The Saga of Coe Ridge.
Author : Robert B Winans
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780252050640
The story of the banjo's journey from Africa to the western hemisphere blends music, history, and a union of cultures. In Banjo Roots and Branches, Robert B. Winans presents cutting-edge scholarship that covers the instrument's West African origins and its adaptations and circulation in the Caribbean and United States. The contributors provide detailed ethnographic and technical research on gourd lutes and ekonting in Africa and the banza in Haiti while also investigating tuning practices and regional playing styles. Other essays place the instrument within the context of slavery, tell the stories of black banjoists, and shed light on the banjo's introduction into the African- and Anglo-American folk milieus. Wide-ranging and illustrated with twenty color images, Banjo Roots and Branches offers a wealth of new information to scholars of African American and folk musics as well as the worldwide community of banjo aficionados. Contributors: Greg C. Adams, Nick Bamber, Jim Dalton, George R. Gibson, Chuck Levy, Shlomo Pestcoe, Pete Ross, Tony Thomas, Saskia Willaert, and Robert B. Winans.
Author : James McCague
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000608722
"The Cumberland River flows mainly through Tennessee, but it begins and ends in Kentucky. The surrounding area is one of the richest and most interesting--both physically and historically-- in the mid-American heartland. Today, its oldest and largest city, Nashville, bears the proud nickname "Athens of the South" and remains an important center of Southern culture, past and present. In this volume, James McCague describes not only the natural beauty but also the history of the river that became a vital artery of America's westward expansion."--book jacket
Author : Paul H. Bergeron,Stephen V. Ash,Jeanette Keith
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1572330562
"The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Crossville (Tenn.)
ISBN : 9781563117671
Author : John E. Kleber
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813159010
The Kentucky Encyclopedia's 2,000-plus entries are the work of more than five hundred writers. Their subjects reflect all areas of the commonwealth and span the time from prehistoric settlement to today's headlines, recording Kentuckians' achievements in art, architecture, business, education, politics, religion, science, and sports. Biographical sketches portray all of Kentucky's governors and U.S. senators, as well as note congressmen and state and local politicians. Kentucky's impact on the national scene is registered in the lives of such figures as Carry Nation, Henry Clay, Louis Brandeis, and Alben Barkley. The commonwealth's high range from writers Harriette Arnow and Jesse Stuart, reformers Laura Clay and Mary Breckinridge, and civil rights leaders Whitney Young, Jr., and Georgia Powers, to sports figures Muhammad Ali and Adolph Rupp and entertainers Loretta Lynn, Merle Travis, and the Everly Brothers. Entries describe each county and county seat and each community with a population above 2,500. Broad overview articles examine such topics as agriculture, segregation, transportation, literature, and folklife. Frequently misunderstood aspects of Kentucky's history and culture are clarified and popular misconceptions corrected. The facts on such subjects as mint juleps, Fort Knox, Boone's coonskin cap, the Kentucky hot brown, and Morgan's Raiders will settle many an argument. For both the researcher and the more casual reader, this collection of facts and fancies about Kentucky and Kentuckians will be an invaluable resource.