- Crises and Resistance in the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, 2003.
- New Theoretical Directions for the 21st Century World-System. Praeger Press, 2003.
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Abramson, Rudy and Jean Haskell, Eds..
Encyclopedia of Appalachia.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. The Encyclopedia contains approx. 2,000 entries organized into five major categories:
Each category is then broken down into sections headed up by introductory essays on the topic. Each essay contains a brief bibliogrpahy. Biographies are not covered comprehensively by the Encyclopedia and many important biographies are omitted from the entries. |
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Edwards, Grace Toney, JoAnn Aust Asbury, and Ricky L. Cox, Eds..
Handbook to Appalachia:
An Introduction to the Region.
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Developed to accompany the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, the Handbook provides a more comprehensive treatment of selected subjects. For example, there are thirteen essays on history, cultural diversity, environment, economy, the politics of change, healthcare, education, folklife, music, religion, literature, visual arts, and Appalachians outside the region. These essays are generally accompanied by photographs and brief but core bibliographies that cover the most important literature on the topics. If used in conjunction with the Encyclopedia of Appalachia, the user will have an excellent starting bibliography of the region and its cultural trends. |
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| Farr, Sidney Saylor. Appalachian Women: an annotated bibliography | |
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Powell, William S., ed.. Encyclopedia of North Carolina. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006 |
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| Bibliography of Theses & Dissertation Pertaining to Southern Appalachian Literature: 1912 - 1991 | |
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Taylor, Mary K., comp. Appalachian
Bibliography. [unpublished paper] 1971. Available
through ERIC online. 15 pages. A dated bibliography assembled for teachers from a variety of sources. ABSTRACT: "This bibliography was compiled to assist high school and junior college teachers in planning a classroom unit on Appalachian literature. It contains suggested fiction and poetry, as well as general background reading. Topic entries are: Bibliographies; Chicago; Fiction; Folklore; General Background Reading (includes psychological, sociological and economic aspects of Appalachian life and culture); History; Literary Analysis; Music; Periodicals; Poetry; Speech; and Resource People and Organizations. Sources used include: "Appalachian Bibliography," Vols. I and II, Morgantown: University of West Virginia Press, 1970 (used extensively); Hickerson, Joseph C., comp. "American Folklore: A Bibliography of Major Works," Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Song; Jones, Loyal, "Appalachian Studies Reading List," Berea: Appalachian Center, Berea College; "Publications List," Berea: The Council of the Southern Mountains, 1971. (Author)" |
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| New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture | |
| Encyclopedia of Southern History | |
| Encyclopedia of American Social History. | |
| Kentucky Encyclopedia | |
| Gavit, John Palmer. Bibliography of college, social, and university settlements. [Compiled by J.P Gavit for the College Settlements Association], 1897. Link: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:899431 | |
| A Checklist of Novels Dealing with the Southern Appalachian Area for Grades 5-12.Detail Only Available . By: Houser, Shonna Sue. 1980 41 pp. (ED212444) | |
| Annotated Bibliography: Southern and Central Appalachian English - Creatd by Michael Montgomery, English Department of the University of South Carolina, Columbia SC 29208. Montgomery ullans@yahoo.com | |
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BOOKS: A partially annotated resource for books, coded for topical subject. AP=Appalachia could be added to each entry, but only those items that are broadly applicable to the geographic region known as 'Appalachia' have been given and AP topic. |
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Key: A=Asheville ; AA=African American ; AP=Appalachia ; Bi=Biography ; B=Buncombe County ; C=Cherokee ; CR=Craft ; CW=Civil War ; E=Education ; Ex=Exploration ; FI=Fiction ; FO=Forestry ; G=Geography ; I=Influences on region ; M=Medical ; MU=Music ; R=Religion ; TT=Travel and Tourism ; WNC=Western North Carolina, General ; W=Women ; U=Urban History; US=Ulster-Scots ; |
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2010 Asheville
City Plan : Asheville, North Carolina
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proposed by the Citizens of Asheville; prepared by the Asheville City Planning Department.
[Full Text] A planning document for the city of Asheville that outlines proposals for the city's expansion. |
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Adams,
William Forbes. An early account of Celtic influences on much of the Appalachian region |
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Alexander, J.B.. A well-written account of an early Appalachian pioneer and the many events in the pioneer family life. |
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Alexander, Tom, 1900-1972.
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Alstott, Tanya. |
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Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog. Appalachian Oral History Project, 1977.
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Arnow, Harriette. The Dollmaker. New York: The
Macmillian Company, 1954. A classic work of fiction on out-migration of Appalachians and the trials and tribulations of one family's journey. |
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Arthur, John Preston. |
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Ashe, Samuel A' Court. History of North Carolina. Vol. 1, Greensboro: C.L. Van Noppen, 1908. Vol. 2, Raleigh: Edwards and Broughton Printing Co., 1925. A very early attempt to gather North Carolina history. Covers western North Carolina and many of the important early pioneers, legislators, and civic leaders of the region. |
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Asheville (N.C.) Located in Special Collections this fragile book provides a snap-shot of the city of Asheville at the end of the 19th century. |
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Asheville (N.C.) Model Cities Agency. This study by the Asheville Model Cities Program is a must read for those wishing to understand urban renewal in the city and to capture the vision of the 1970's in Asheville. |
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Asheville (N.C.) City Demonstration Agency. |
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Asheville Area Personages; a Directory. Asheville, N. C., Arthur C. Coffey, 1966. A 'who's who' directory of the city of Asheville of the 1960's. Entries are shallow and focus on Asheville's more affluent population. |
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Asheville City Directories. 1927-1966. [ Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) city directory. Richmond, Va. : Piedmont Directory Co 1927- Some missing years. See : Hill's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C. City Directory. Richmond, Va.: Hill Directory Co. Donated by Cas Morgan, Director of the Asheville FBI Office. Can be used to study the rise and decline of neighborhoods by consulting the occupancy rates, occupations of owners, construction and abandonment rates, etc. Western Carolina University holds the following Asheville City Directories F264.A8 A18: 1924-1926, 1935, 1943-1951, 1953-1959, 1978-1981, 1983, 1985-1990, 1992 . For a more complete run see: UNCA Asheville City Directory on microfilm available for 1902-1934. For current directories see: Polk City Directory. Asheville, North Carolina. Richmond, Va. : R.L. Polk & Co., 1983 - . A critical source of information on Asheville's businesses, people, and demographic information. The cross index may be used in a variety of ways to locate important business and building activity in the city. |
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The Asheville
Doctoral Program Story : realizing a dream /
edited by Dale Brubaker and Harold Snyder ; with a preface by Donald J. Stedman.
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Asheville Institute on General Education (1st : 1991) Proceedings, June 7-12, 1991 / Asheville Institute on General Education ; general editor, Merritt Moseley. Washington, D.C. : Association of American Colleges, c1992. Account of an on-going institute held at UNCA that focused on general education topics. |
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Asheville Revitalization Commission. |
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Ayers, Edward L. The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction. New York: Oxford UP, 1992. Includes sections on western North Carolina that point to the choices made regarding economic development in the region. |
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Ayers, Harvard, Jenny Hager, and Charles E. Little, eds. An Applachian Tragedy: Air Pollution and Tree Death in the Eastern Forests of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1998. Of interest to environmentalists, this study has since seen many research revisions and additions. A nice introduction to the flora and the forests of the Appalachians. |
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Ayers, Horace B. and Williard Ashe. |
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Bartram, William. One of the very earliest first-hand accounts of travel in the southern Appalachians. Bartram's travels provide eye-witness accounts of flora and fauna of the region and the native populations observed in the late 1700's. |
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Bay, Brad A. No annotation. |
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Baym, Nina. American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790-1860. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP, 1995. Many of the women writers who were active in the southern Appalachians are covered in this critical study that explores both literary and historical themes found in the women's writing. |
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Bibliography
of Southern Appalachia. Locally prepared, but now out-of-date, this 235 page bibliography is none-the-less an important contribution to any comprehensive bibliography of Appalachia. UNCA REFERENCE Z1251.A7 B5x. Contains a topical index. |
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Beaver, Patricia. Pat Beaver, on the faculty at Appalachian State University at Boone has written a comprehensive account of what constitutes rural community in the Appalachian south. Her account is well researched with extensive footnotes and bibliography and will be an excellent starting place for those wishing to grasp the sociology of the region. |
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Becker, Jane Stewart. An introduction to the arts and crafts traditions of the Southern Appalachians. The bibliography is very rich for those who wish to deeply immerse in the arts and crafts of the region. |
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Benedict, Clare. Voices Out of the Past. Vol. 1 of Five Generations, 1785-1923: Being Scattered Chapters from the History of the Cooper, Pomeroy, Woolson and Benedict Families, with Extracts from Their Letters and Journals, as Well as Articles and Poems by Constance Fenimore Woolson. 3 vols. Ed. Benedict. London: Ellis, 1929. |
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Billings, Dwight B., and Kathleen M. Blee. The Road to Poverty: The Making of Wealth and Hardship in Appalachia. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2000. A well-researched, scholarly account of the cultural, political and social contributions to the southern Appalachian region's long-standing poverty |
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Black, David R. |
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Blackmun, Ora. A fundamental resource for understanding the history of western North Carolina and the Appalachian region, generally. |
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Blethen, Tyler and Richard A. Straw,
ed High Mountains Rising: Appalacia in Time and Place. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004.
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Blethen, Tyler and Curtis W. Wood Jr. A brief but very informative account of the contributions of the Ulster-Scotch-Irish on the Appalachian region. Easily grasped by a range of readers, but limited in its scope. Nice focus on farming practice. For a more extensive account see the Ulster and North America [computer file] : transatlantic perspectives on the Scotch-Irish, below. |
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Blethen, Tyler, Curtis W. Wood, Jr.
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Bobo, William M. Glimpses of New York City by a South Carolinian (Who Had Nothing Else To Do). Charleston: J.J. McCarter, 1852. An amusing reverse "outsider" tale. |
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Boime, Albert. The Magisterial Gaze: Manifest Destiny and American Landscape Painting, 1830-1865. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. |
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Bottorff, William K. James Lane Allen. New York: Twayne, 1964. |
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Bourne, Louis M. |
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Boyd, Anne E. Writing for Immortality : Women and the Emergence of High Literary Culture in America. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004 [women writers in WNC] Many of the women writers worked in the southern Appalachians and in western North Carolina. The importance of this early "women's work" to later movements is addressed and due credit is given to many of the authors. Their struggles for recognition, publication venues, and subjects are well treated in this scholarly work. |
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Boyer, Marie Louise. History of a local Episcopalian church associated with Biltmore Estate and designed by Morris Hunt and Richard Sharp Smith. |
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Broadhead, Richard H. Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth Century. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995.
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Brooke,
Peter.
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Brown, Margaret Lynn. The Wild East: A Biography of the Great Smoky Mountains. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2000. Margaret Brown, faculty at Brevard College in western North Carolina has written an engaging book about the Great Smoky Mountains National park and its early development and its later use. |
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Buck, Charles Neville, 1879- An early piece of fiction about the Cumberland mountain region of Appalachia. Saccharine. |
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Bunce, Oliver Bell. In the Woods with Bryant, Longfellow and Halleck. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866. |
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Bunce, Oliver Bell and William Cullen Bryant, eds. Picturesque America, or, The Land We Live In: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Waterfalls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country. 2 vols. New York: Appleton, 1872- Visually appealing and enormously important for early impressions of the southern Appalachians, this two volume work was serialized in Appleton's magazine as well as aggregated into the two volume set. |
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Well known author of The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett spent time in the southern Appalachians and particularly in Tennessee and North Carolina. Her observations are sharp and her insight into the human condition comes through in all her work. Like many authors who traveled to Appalachia, Burnett still reveals her "outsider" attraction to the local color and the local dialects. |
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A |
Buttitta, Tony. A popular and entertaining series of stories gathered by Buttitta about Asheville. The focus on Fitzgerald is entertaining, but sometimes embellished. |
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Byrd, William, 1674-1744 and Edmund Ruffin,
1794-1865. Found in full-text online, this early account of settlement along the Virginia and North Carolina boundary is an homage to the enormous natural wealth of the region and the promise of great fortunes to be won by land speculation. |
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Cadle, Dean. An early bibliographic instruction tool for D.H. Ramsey Library. Now very out-dated, but provides information on early collections and their use in instruction at UNCA. |
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Cadle, Dean, 1920- Recording. |
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Caicedo, Elton K. Very little information on the region, but an interesting comparative work for those interested in early travel journals and travel literature. |
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Cameron, William E. The World's Fair: Being a Pictorial History of the Columbian Exposition; Containing a Complete History of the World-renowned Exposition at Chicago. Mansfield, OH: Estill, 1893. An important work for understanding the role of Biltmore Estate and those who worked there and contributed to this World's Fair. Olmsted, Schenck and others played a leading role in shaping taste and ideas in the Southern Appalachians through their participation in the Chicago exposition in 1893. |
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Camp, Cordelia, 1884-1973. Asheville Normal School, a precursor to the current UNC Asheville is a window on early women's education in the Southern Appalachian mountains. The school was well-known and influential and many institutions borrowed ideas and structures from the institution. |
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Campbell, John C. The Southern Highlander and His
Homeland. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1921.
Paperback edition: Lexington: University of Kentucky Press.
The pioneer work on Appalachian studies that gained national recognition. It remains a core resource for Appalachian studies. Bibliography on pp. 375-389 is dated but excellent. |
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Carter, Mary Nelson. A delightful but somewhat naive account of the life of a mountain physician and family in the Asheville area.. |
| AP |
Caudill, Harry. Night Comes to the Cumberlands.
A core resource for those interested in the environmental issues of the Appalachian region and the economic impact of coal mining on the region. Caudill writes with the clarity of intelligence that many in the area aspire to. |
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Chapman, Jefferson. An important book for understanding the Native American history of the southern Appalachian region, particularly the Tennessee River valley area and the Cumberland Plateau. |
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Chase, Nan. Asheville: A History, 2009. One of the best histories of the city to be written in some years, this carefully researched book unflinchingly tackles many of the underlying themes and issues of the city and attempts to give them perspective with the time and the politics of other urban Appalachian cities. |
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Chew, V. Collins. Underfoot: A Geologic Guide to the Appalachian Trail. 2nd ed. Harpers Ferry: Appalachian Trail Conference, 1993. If geology is of interest, this small book will guide the hiker as they travel along the length of the Appalachian Trail. The work is of particular interest in becoming familiar with the geological formation of the Appalachians and the many differences in mountains and minerals of the region. |
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Combs, Edith. No annotation. |
| AP |
Conway, Cecelia African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. 1995 African-American traditions of the folk banjo. Articles include: The ritual of Minstrelsy: some were buffoons, but others were apprentices; Mountain echoes of the African banjo; The banjo: Its changing form, construction, and use etc. |
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Corkran, David.
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Craddock, Charles Egbert (Murfree, Mary Noailles),
1850-1922 A fanciful piece of fiction that is centered on the Smoky Mountains area and the people and culture of the mountains. Use of dialect and knowledge of the geography, social customs, food habits, and other regional information make this work an important resource for studying both the region and its literature. |
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Davis, Lenwood G. One of only a handful of books that address the history of the southern Appalachian African American. The focus on western North Carolina limits the scope of this work, but is revealing in the importance of the urban Black experience to the regional cultural experiences. |
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C |
Dickens, Roy. Native American studies. |
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Duerr, William A. A careful analysis of lumbering and forestry in the southern Appalachians. Filled with charts and graphs that provide unique opportunity to compare pre-logging and today's forest health against economic models following WWII.. |
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Dunaway, Wilma. The First American Frontier: Transition to
Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860. University of North
Carolina Press, 1996. Dunaway, an expert on ante-bellum Appalachia, focuses on land acquisition and the process of moving from an agrarian base to capitalist interests in the Appalachian region. Using a methodology called "world systems theory" Dunaway sets about debunking the prevailing idea of the ante-bellum Appalachian. Winner of numerous awards for her extraordinary scholarship, she has not disappointed the serious scholar with her dense delivery of statistics, graphs and charts that skillfully and visually chronicle many of her solid theses. |
| ---------------------- . Slavery in the American Mountain South. Cambridge University Press, 2003. | |
| ---------------------- . The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, 2003. | |
| ---------------------- . Southern Laboring Women: Race, Class and Gender Conflict in Antebellum Appalachia. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming. | |
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Dyer, Joyce. A delightful read, this anthology of Appalachian writing brings home the region as few books have done. Includes many of the women who are icons of Appalachia are represented in the book, as are lesser-known individuals whose work continues to shape what we know about women, Appalachia, and women in Appalachia. |
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Dykeman, Wilma. Willis D. Weatherford, Sr. and Willis D. Weatherford, Jr. both contributed significantly to education in the Appalachian region. This biographical work describes the close connection of Weatherford to the Blue Ridge Assembly and to the work of the Presbyterian church in the south. Written by Wilma Dykeman, author of The French Broad, and historian of the southern Appalachians, the portrait focuses on the many contributions of the Weatherfords and pulls from her first-hand knowledge of the two.. Dykeman served on the Board of Trustees of Berea College where Weatherford, Jr. served as President . |
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Eaton, Allen H. This is the foundational book for those wishing to become familiar with Appalachian arts and crafts. Eaton has documented many early craft enterprises and individual initiatives. The survey covers the full range of craft including weaving, wood-carving, pottery, woodworking, basketry, and other lesser crafts. |
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Echerd, Arthur Reeves. An important work for Buncombe County and genealogical enthusiasts, this work chronicles the early life of the Patton family, one of the earliest settlers of the region. |
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AP |
Edwards, Everett Eugene. Part of the many WPA works that were completed by various researchers, photographers, and writers during the 1930's, this small work provides an overview of the Appalachian mountaineer at a particular point in time. |
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Eller, Ronald D. Well researched, sensitive, and knowledgeable this account of industrialization in the Appalachian South has yet to find its scholarly match. Eller, who formerly headed the Appalachian Studies Association and the Appalachian Center at UK has a life-time of observation of the region and its history and culture. Nice bibliography. |
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Farr, Sidney Saylor. This is a seminal work for those wishing to study Appalachian women. Prepared by a Berea College librarian, Sidney S. Farr, this annotated bibliography is the only one of its kind and pulls from the rich Berea College repository and archive of Appalachia. |
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Finger, John R. Well written and researched, this book is focused on the Eastern Band of the Cherokee up to 1900. For later research, the scholar is best served by the many periodical articles written about the tribe. |
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Foote, William Henry. No annotation. |
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Ford, Thomas R.. The Southern Appalachian Region:
A Survey. Madison University of Wisconsin Press, 1962.
A scarce title once available through the Council of the Southern Mountains, it contains the findings of one of the most comprehensive studies ever attempted on the Southern Appalachians. |
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Gavit, John Palmer. Bibliography of college,
social, and university settlements. [Compiled by J.P Gavit for the
College Settlements Association], 1897. Link:
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:899431 One of the most extensive bibliographies of Settlement Schools and Sponsored Schools, published during their hey-day. |
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Georgi-Findlay, Brigitte. No annotation. |
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Gill, Hannah.
The Latino Migration Experience
in North Carolina:
New Roots in the Old North State. Chapel
Hill: UNC Press, 2010. A contemporary account of Latino migration and its impact on North Carolina |
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Gist, Christopher, 1759. |
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Gray, Idyl Dial. |
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Griffin, Patrick. |
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Guerrant, Edward Owings, 1838- |
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Gulick, John. |
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Harshaw, Lou.
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Highsmith, William Edward. The only full-length book on the subject. Highsmith was the long-termed President and ultimately Chancellor of the University of NC at Asheville. Limited by its short date range, the book would benefit from a follow-up. |
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Hill's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.)
City Directory. See City Directories. |
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Horton, James H., Theda Perdue, and James M.
Gifford. Specific to western North Carolina, this anthology contains a variety of unique and personal insights on western North Carolina. |
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Inscoe, John. Appalachia in the Making. 1995 See especially, "Race and Racism in Nineteenth Century Southern Appalachia: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities," in this title. |
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Irwin, John Rice. Musical
Instruments of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Norris, Tennessee: Museum of Appalachia Press,
1979.
Subtitled, "A history of the author's collection housed in the Museum of Apppalachia," this book describes and illustrates a number of dulcimers and their musicians. Irwin, a MacArthur Foundation genius awardee is well versed in the topic. The February 1996 Smithsonian Magazine article "Bark Grinders and Fly Minders Tell a Tale of Appalachia," by Jeannie Ralston, provides additional information on dulcimers and on Irwin. |
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Isbell, Robert, 1923- A genealogical history of this tall-tale tellin' family of North Carolina. |
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Jacobs, Philip Walker. Doris Ulmann has an intimate connection with Appalachia. Her photographs and her travels throughout the region provide a beautiful visual portrait of the region and its people. She spent some time at the John C. Campbell Folk School where she became intimately familiar with life in western North Carolina and with the culture of the southern Appalachians. Any exploration of Appalachian photography will require time with the work of Ulmann. Her collections are held throughout the country and include two large bodies of work at Berea College, and the University of Oregon. |
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A |
Johnson, Bruce E. Bruce is the authority on the 1913 hotel known as the Grove Park Inn. The annual International Arts and Crafts Conference held at the Inn provides an opportunity to explore the Arts and Crafts as well as the Inn, one of the country's finest examples of the movement. |
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Kephart, Horace. Many believe this to be the best of the southern Appalachian accounts. Written by Kephart, an eccentric librarian, perhaps no better love-story of the region can be found. Kephart's accounts of the people, the culture, the flora and the fauna of the area cannot find an easy equal. This is a book that is difficult to put to rest and readers will want to return to it time and again. |
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Lanman, Charles. A fundamental early work when studying the history and the early travel in the southern Appalachians. Lanman's first-hand accounts provide one of the earliest views of the region and the pristine wilderness of the early nineteenth century in the Blue Ridge mountains and the Alleghenies. |
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Lawson, John. Like Lanman, the Lawwson book is fundamental to the study of the southern Appalachian region. The account, while not centered on the region, provides some of the earliest details on the region and encouraged further exploration of the area. |
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Lindsey,
Thomas H. A very early and sweet little travel guide to western North Carolina. Lindsey, a photographer also provided images of the region and captures the area before the turn of the century. His photographs are highly prized and difficult to find today. |
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Martin, Wade H. |
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Masa,
George, et. al |
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Mathews, Jane Gianvito, 1954- |
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Medford, W. Clark. |
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Message from the President. 1902 A early, turn-of-the-century report published by the department of Agriculture concerning environmental conditions and problems of the Appalachian region. Includes photographs and illustrations of the terrain. |
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Metropolitan Planning Board - Asheville and Buncombe County. |
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Miller's Asheville (Buncombe County, N.C.) city directory. Richmond, Va. : Piedmont Directory Co. [See also Asheville City Directories.] |
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Mitchell, Elisha. |
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Mitchell, Elisha. |
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Moore, Rayburn S. |
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Morley, Margaret Warner. |
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Munn, Robert. |
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Nevin,
Alfred, ed. |
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Nolen, John, 1869-1937. |
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Obermiller, Phillip, Thomas E. Wagner, and E.
Bruce Tucker. |
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Olmsted, Frederick L. |
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Pack, Charles Lathrop Thomas Hatch Of Barnstable & Some Of His Descendants; The Descent Of Alice Gertrude Hatch And Her Husband, Charles Lathrop Pack from Thomas Hatch and allied families. Newark, N.J., The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey, 1930. Charles Lathrop Pack, is the son of George Willis Pack who donated the land to create the current Pack Square in Asheville, NC. His work in forest conservation was instrumental in the development of our National Parks system and in the establishment of forest ecology programs. |
| F | Pack, Charles LathropThe Forest Poetic Washington? 192-] |
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Pack, Charles Lathrop. The Forestry Primer, 50 Years Ago To-Day . Washington : American Tree Association, [1929] |
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Pack, Charles Lathrop. Forests And Mankind. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1937 |
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Pack, Charles Lathrop. Memorial Trees. [Washington? D.C. : American Forestry Association?, 1919?] |
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Pack, Charles Lathrop. Trees As Good Citizens. Washington, D. C., The American tree association [c1922] |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. Buncombe to Mecklenburg -- Speculation Lands, Forest City, N.C. Forest City Courier, 1955. [ASU only] | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. Sketches of Polk County History, Spartanburg, S.C. : Reprint Co., 1976 [1950] | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. Kingdom of the Happy Land, Asheville, N.C. : Stephens Press, 1957. [ASU, only] | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. The Story of Henderson County, Asheville, N.C., Printed by the Miller Printing Company [1947] | |
| Patton, Sadie Smathers. A Condensed History of Flat Rock (the little Charleston of the mountains), Asheville, N.C., Church Printing Co. 1961. | |
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Pearson, Thomas. Richmond Hill : A Guided Tour. Asheville, N. C. : [s.n.] ; 1961. |
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Perdue, Theda, ed. Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1983. |
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Polk City Directory. Asheville, North Carolina. Richmond, Va. : R.L. Polk & Co., 1983- [See also, Asheville City Directories.] |
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Pool, Maria Louise. In Buncombe County. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Company, 1896. |
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Porter, Eliot, 1901-
Appalachian Wilderness; the
Great Smoky Mountains Natural and human history by Edward Abbey. Epilogue by Harry M. Caudill. |
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Presbrey, Frank. The Southland: an exposition of the present resources and development of the south. Washington, D. C. Southern Railway Co., 1898 |
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Raine, James Watt. The
Land of Saddlebags: A Study of the Mountain People of Appalachia. Published
jointly by Council of Women for Home Missions and Missionary Education
Movement of the United States and Canada, 1924. Reprinted a number of
times.
Still out of print but not too hard to find in the second hand trade. Raine was head of the English Department at Berea College. The book is written in an engaging style that comes from years of first-hand observation. It includes several songs and many photographs. |
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Raymond, Ida. |
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Ready, Milton.
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Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the
Cumberlands. University of Kentucky Press, 1955. A classic work for understanding Appalachian music. The work details the life and music of the Kentucky dulcimer player and historian who became both a scholar of Appalachian music and a performer of Appalachian balladry. Jean also writes her own music and combines both regional and contemporary forms in her work. Singing Family of the Cumberlands describes the place of music in an Appalachian family home. Included in the narrative are accounts of folk tales, dance, riddles, herbal medicine and more. Personal accounts of Jean's wedding, sorghum stir-offs, Christmas celebrations and craft are also included. and riddles that often accompanied family entertainment, often recounted using native dialect. |
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Rogers' Asheville. Photogravures. Brooklyn, New York, 1899. |
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Ross, Charlotte T. |
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Ross, M.H. Life Style of the Coal Miner: America's Original Hard Hat. [S] ; s.n., 1973? Mining and health issues in the coal fields. Reprinted from Appalachian Medicine. |
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Shackelford, Laurel. |
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Sharp, Cecil and Maud Karpeles.
English Folk Songs From the Southern Appalachians.
Oxford University Press, 1932 and republished, 1960.
Still a classic for the study of Appalachian music and balladry, Sharp and Karpeles gathered music from a broad geographic sweep of the southern Appalachians. An analysis of the work of Sharp and Karpeles appeared in a 1985 issue of Smithsonian magazine. Written by Tony Scherman and titled, "A Man Who Mined Musical Gold in the Southern Hills," the article looks at the collecting of Karpeles and Sharp in the 1916-1918 years. |
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Sharp, Cecil. 80 Appalachian Folk Songs, Collected by Cecil Sharp and Maud Karpeles. Faber & Faber, 1968.Easier to find than the English Folk Songs ... title, this small book provides direct access to the more familiar songs to come from the collecting that Sharp and Karpeles engaged in 1916-1918. |
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Shapiro, Henry. |
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Smith, Clyde H. |
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Smith, Chadwick Corntassel and Rennard Strickland.
Building One Fire: Art + World View in Cherokee Life.
Tahlequaj, Oklahoma: Cherokee Nation, 2010. Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Smith, Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation collaborates with Strickland in describing eighty artists who express Cherokee philosophy and craft. |
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Smith, James, 1737-1812. |
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Smith, J.
Gray (James Gray), 1797-1875. |
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Sears,
John F. |
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Sondley Reference Library, Asheville, N. C. |
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Sondley, Forster Alexander, 1857-1931. |
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Southern, Michael T.,
ed. |
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Starnes, Richard Dale. A preliminary to Starns' book of the same title. See below. |
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Starnes, Richard Dale. Creating the Land of the Sky: Tourism and Society in Western North Carolina. 2001. From the Inside Flap: In the early 19th century, planter families from South Carolina, Georgia, and eastern North Carolina left their low-country estates during the summer to relocate their households to vacation homes in the mountains of western North Carolina. Those unable to afford the expense of a second home relaxed at the hotels that emerged to meet their needs. This early tourist activity set the stage for tourism to become the region's New South industry. After 1865, the development of railroads and the burgeoning consumer culture led to the expansion of tourism across the whole region. Richard Starnes argues that western North Carolina benefited from the romanticized image of Appalachia in the post-Civil War American consciousness. This image transformed the southern highlands into an exotic travel destination, a place where both climate and culture offered visitors a myriad of diversions. This depiction was further bolstered by partnerships between state and federal agencies, local boosters, and outside developers to create the attractions necessary to lure tourists to the region. As tourism grew, so did the tension between leaders in the industry and local residents. The commodification of regional culture, low-wage tourism jobs, inflated land prices, and negative personal experiences bred no small degree of animosity among mountain residents toward visitors. Starnes's study provides a better understanding of the significant role that tourism played in shaping communities across the South. Richard D. Starnes is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University and editor of Southern Journeys: Tourism, History, and Culture in the Modern South. "Starnes well describes some of the detrimental consequences, such as low
wages and higher crime rates, of the region’s having followed a tourism
development path. He also provides some fine discussion of the trade-offs
between tourism and industrial development and tourism’s impact on local
communities. This study can serve as a fine model for others to follow in
telling the history of other locales.” |
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Stephenson, John B. Shiloh: A Study of a Mountain
Community. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. A comprehensive analysis of a small mountain community since 1940 to 1968, that attempts to show how the people in the community have accommodated to the mainstream of American life and culture. Stephenson was for a brief time the President of Berea College, Ky. |
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Terrell, Bob. |
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Tessier, Mitzi, 1924- |
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Turner, William Hobart and Edward J. Cabbell.
Blacks in Appalachia. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky,
1985 A well-researched but personal perspective of the role of Blacks in Appalachia. The focus of Turner's and Cabbell's work, however, often falls outside the Appalachian region and seems written more for a Bluegrass audience. Had Turner, for example, placed his attention more on the role of Blacks in the eastern mining industry, where Turner has roots, the book would have been a stronger contribution to Appalachian studies. |
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United States. Dept. of Agriculture. |
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United States. Work Projects Administration. North Carolina. |
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University of North Carolina at Asheville. |
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University of North Carolina at Asheville. Department of Literature. |
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University of North Carolina at Asheville. Department of Literature. |
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Volk, Victoria Loucia. |
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Woolson, Constance Fenimore. |
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Warner, Charles Dudley. A carefully chronicled account of travel in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia in August of 1887. Warner weaves a detailed record of some of the key scenic areas of western North Carolina. Known as the mentor of Mark Twain, Warner shares some of the same wit and humor found in Twain's work. This is delightful reading and a must for those who want a graphic introduction to the area through the keen eyes of an "outsider" and the sharp observation of one who knows human nature. |
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Waselkov, Gregory A. and Kathryn E. Holland
Braund. |
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Washington, George, 1732-1799. Also see: The diaries of George Washington, edited by Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976-1979. UNCA Early exploration and land acquisition in the Appalachians. |
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Webb, Charles A. (Charles Aurelius) |
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Welfare portrait of Asheville, North Carolina : a community welfare study
of the year 1938 / Community Chests and Councils, Inc., New York,
N.Y.; Survey Bureau - Asheville Community Chest; Citizens' Committee of One Hundred. |
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Weatherford, Willis D.. and Earl D.C Brewer.
Life and Religion in Southern Appalachia. Lexington: University of
Kentucky Press, 1965.
Weatherford's study is a synthesis of several previous studies of the Southern Appalachian mountaineer and to this synthesis he has added his own views related to Appalachian Presbyterianism. As a close observer of human nature, Weatherford has provided a very astute picture of mountain life. |
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Whisnant, David E. All That is Native & Fine; The Politics of Culture
in an American Region. (with a new forward by the author). Chapel
Hill: University Of North Carolina Press, 1983. Core reading for those interested in multiple perspectives of the region. |
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Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia: A History. Chapel Hill and
London: University of North Carolina Press, 2001 One of the most recent comprehensive histories of Appalachia by ASU faculty, John A. Williams. The book covers approximately four centuries of Appalachian history, politics, sociology, religion and economics. Williams is not only a thorough researcher, but also an engaging story-teller. |
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Wilson, Samuel Tyndale, 1858- A small book, but one that captures the essence of the region at the turn of the century. Wilson, who researched the book for the Presbyterian Home Missions has found and used his sources for tables and graphs on economics, education, religion and other important social and cultural comparisons. The material is easy to digest but must be read in the context of the time. Observations on "poor Appalachian Whites" and on the Negro help to place later social programs in perspective. |
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Woolson, Constance Fenimore. One of Woolson's most well-known pieces of fiction. The story takes place in western North Carolina and readers from the area will recognize many of the locations. |
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Zeigler, Wilbur and Ben Grosscup. |
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Blue Ridge
Folk Instruments and Their Makers: An Exhibit Organized by the Blue
Ridge Institute of Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia. 1992.
Excellent photographs and text. Contact Blue Ridge Institute, Ferrum
College, Ferrum, Virginia 24088, for information on availability and
price.
Hicks, John Henry, Mattie and Barnabas B. The
Hicks Families of Western North Carolina (Watauga River Lines). Boone,
North Carolina, 1991. John Henry Hicks spent twenty five years compiling
this 463-page work, and published it himself. He died in 1997.
Isbell, Robert, The
Last Chivaree: The Hicks Family of Beech Mountain.
Kincaid, Robert L. The
Wilderness Road. Bobbs
Merrill 1947, reprinted by several other publishers and currently in
print. This is the basic work. It doesn't supplant Pusey's book,
listed below; nothing could.
Long, Lucy. The
Negotiation of Tradition: Collectors, Community, and the Appalachian
Dulcimer in Beech Mountain, North Carolina. Unpublished
Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1995. Discussed in the text.
Fascinating! As for "negotiation" versus "cultural imposition," my
preference is for Lucy's approach. The matter is discussed in Appalachian
Dulcimer Traditions, chapter 5.
Matteson, Maurice. Beech
Mountain Folk-Songs and Ballads.
Collected, arranged, and provided with piano accompaniments by
Maurice Matteson. Texts edited and foreword written by Mellinger
Edward Henry. Schirmer's American Folk-Song Series, Set 15. G.
Schirmer, Inc. (1936). This important early work contains several
transcriptions from the dulcimer playing of Nathan Hicks. The book
is discussed in Appalachian
Dulcimer Traditions, pp.
68-69.
Mullins, Mike, Geneva Smith, and Ron Daley.
Coeditors, Knott
County, Kentucky History and Families, 1884-1994. Paducah,
Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 1995. Invaluable. A little over a
thousand copies were printed, all but 100 of which were presold before
publication. If you missed it, you missed something wonderful. See if
you can borrow it from somewhere on interlibrary loan.
Pusey, William Allen, The
Wilderness Road to Kentucky, Its Location and Features. George
H. Doran Company, 1921. Pusey, a medical doctor, was the
great-grandson of William Brown, who traveled the Wilderness Road in
1782 and kept a journal which has been preserved. In the years 1919
to 1921, Pusey determined the exact location of the Road, which was
then not fully known, and published the information in this book
with many photographs. The book is wonderful and rare. You will
probably pay a good deal for it if you can locate a copy in the
second hand trade, but you should do so with a glad heart. The
frontispiece, showing the doctor's old touring car with the top down
and a 1920 Virginia license, parked beside the unpaved road in the
saddle of Cumberland Gap, is worth the price all by itself.
Ritchie, Jean. The
Dulcimer Book. Original
edition, Oak Publications, 1963, with many reprintings. The first
book about the dulcimer, and still fresh and wonderful.
---. Dulcimer
People. Oak
Publishing Company, 1975. Additional information on Jean and on the
dulcimer scene as it stood at the time of publication.
Scarborough, Dorothy. A
Song Catcher in the Southern Mountains: American Folk Songs of
British Ancestry.AMS Press,
1966. Original edition, Columbia University Press, 1937. Includes
some transcriptions of dulcimer tunes played by a lady named Clara
Callaghan of Saluda, North Carolina, about 1932. I have some doubts
about this material; the tunes and text sound like standard printed
British versions. The book is nevertheless charming.
Smith, L. Allen. A
Catalog of Pre-Revival Appalachian Dulcimers. University
of Missouri Press, 1983. Out of print and indispensable. The first
scholarly work on the dulcimer and the seedbed of all subsequent work.
Smith, Ralph Lee. Appalachian
Dulcimer Traditions. Scarecrow
Press, 1997. This book examines three major design traditions of the
dulcimer, each centered in its own geographical area, along with
important makers in each of the three traditions--the Melton family
of Galax, Virginia, Charles M. Prichard of Huntington, West
Virginia, and "Uncle Ed" Thomas of Kentucky. A final chapter
discusses four dulcimer makers of the folk revival transition--Homer
Ledford of Winchester, Kentucky, Leonard and Clifford Glenn of Sugar
Grove, North Carolina, and Edd Presnell of Banner Elk, North
Carolina.
---. The
Story of the Dulcimer. Crying
Creek Publishers, 1986. A narrative account of the dulcimer's history
from its origins on the Appalachian Frontier to the folk revival.
Warner, Anne. Traditional
American Folk Songs from the Anne and Frank
Whisnant, David E. All
That is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. University
of North Carolina Press, 1983. I have serious doubts about the
theoretical underpinnings of this book, which I discuss in detail in Appalachian
Dulcimer Traditions, chapter 5.
Wilgus, D. K. Anglo-American
Folksong Scholarship Since 1898. Greenwood
Press, 1982. Original edition, Rutgers University Press, 1959. This
was Wilgus' Ph.D. thesis. It contains more about early twentieth
Century scholarly wrangling over ballads than matters to most people
today, but I confess that I enjoyed all of it.
Williams, Herman K. The
First Forty Years of the Old Fiddlers Convention, Galax, Virginia. n.p.,
n.d. A highly interesting local production.
Ralph Lee Smith is a a writer and editor living in Ohio. Do you
have comments or questions about his bibliography? Contact Mr.
Smith directly
by e-mail. To learn more about him, see the Contributors section of Sweet
Music Index.
Sweet Music Index asked
participants in the Sweet Music Digest mountain dulcimer discussion list
for information about their favorite non-musical notation book about
music. Here's what they've had to say so far:
Making Music for the Joy
of It by
Stephanie Judy, Tarcher Press, Los Angeles, 1990.
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