Author: Charles Strong Olson ((Ted))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The Folklife of the Blue Ridge Region
Author: Charles Strong Olson ((Ted))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Appalachian Region
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
The Folklife of the Blue Ridge Region
Author: Charles Strong Olson ((Ted))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Blue Ridge Folklife
Author: Ted OlsonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628467614
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent people from several cultural backgrounds that did not fit with the English-dominated society. The landless, the restless, and the rootless followed Daniel Boone, the most famous of the settlers, and pushed the frontier westward. The settlers who did not migrate to new lands became geographically isolated and politically and economically marginalized. Yet they created fulfilling lives for themselves by forging effective and oftentimes sophisticated folklife traditions, many of which endure in the region today. In 1772 the Blue Ridge was the site of the Watauga Association, often cited as the first free and democratic non-native government on the American continent. In 1780 Blue Ridge pioneers helped win the Revolutionary War for the patriots by defeating Patrick Ferguson's army of British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. When gold was discovered in the southernmost section of the Blue Ridge, America experienced its first gold rush and the subsequent tragic displacement of the region's aboriginal people. Having been spared by the coincidence of geology and topography from the more environmentally damaging manifestations of industrialization, coal mining, and dam building, the Blue Ridge region still harbors scenic natural beauty as well as vestiges of the earliest cultures of southern Appalachia. As it describes the most characteristic and significant verbal, customary, and material traditions, this fascinating, fact-filled book traces the historical development of the region's distinct folklife.
The Process of Field Research
Author: Carl FleischhauerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Blue Ridge Harvest - a Region's Folklife in Photographs
Author: U.S. Library of Congress. American Folklife CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Blue Ridge Harvest
Author: Lyntha Scott EilerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Blue Ridge Harvest
Author: Blue Ridge Harvest
Author: Luntha Scott EilerFolk Geography of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Author: Wilhelm Eugene JosephPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
Folk Songs of the Blue Ridge Mountains
Author: Herbert ShellansPublisher: Oak Archives
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
50 traditional songs as sung by the people of the Blue Ridge Mountains country. Collected, transcribed, and compiled - with notes on the people and music - by Herbert Shellans.