Upper Cumberland Country (Folklife in the South Series) - Softcover

Montell, William Lynwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0878056319 ISBN 13: 9780878056316

Verlag: University Press of Mississippi, 1993

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Book by Montell William Lynwood

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The past springs into the present in a book as hospitable as the people of the region it explores

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Tucked between Appalachia and the Deep South, the Upper Cumberland region straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line along the banks of the Cumberland River. Here, dating from the days of the nation’s earliest history, is one of America’s richest repositories of folklife. Rather than revealing an artifact, however, this comprehensive study of the Upper Cumberland reveals a living tradition whose roots in the past continue to nourish the present.

Documented here in descriptive text, photographs, and interviews are varieties of folk cultural expression in music, architecture, crafts, schools, religious life, folk medical practices, and customs surrounding birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Upper Cumberland Country explores the spectrum of folklore from yesterday and today—from pioneer life and early folk architecture to teens “cruising” and women deer hunters. In a region filled with relics, modern voices from the Upper Cumberland speak directly of the living traditions that give t

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• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0878056319
• ISBN 13: 9780878056316
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208