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Bibliography
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Cabbell, Ed "History Uncovers the Role of Black Appalachian Women".
Now and Then. 3(1):13-15. .(Winter 1986)
Moore, A.Doyle. "The Autoharp: Its Origin and Development From a
Popular to a Folk Instrument." New York Folklore Quarterly, 19:4. (December,
1963)
Ledford, Lily May. Coon Creek Girl. Berea, KY: College Appalachian
Center, 1991.
Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1955. Reprint edition, New York: Geordie Music Publishing,
1980.
Ritchie, Jean. Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians, Second
Edition. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
Ritchie, Jean. The Dulcimer Book. New York: Oak Publications,
1963.
Sweet Rivers of Song: Traditional Songs from the Soutehrn Appalachian
Mountain Region. Berea College: 1967.
Wheeler, Billy Edd. "Mother Maybelle Carter: Her Career Spans a
Half-Century". Country Music. Vol. 1 #12. (December 1973)
Wheeler, Marjorie Spruill . New Women of the New South: The Leaders
of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States. Oxford University
Press: 1993
Appalachian
Studies Selected Bibliography http://www.library.appstate.edu/appcoll/apsbib.html
Compiled by Appalachian State University
Appalachian Women and Traditional
Music http://community.berea.edu/awtm/
Compiled by the Appalacian College Association
Appalachian Women
http://cass.etsu-tn.edu/archives/women.htm
From the archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
Dulcimer Players
News http://www.dpnews.com/
Appalachian Books, an
Online Store http://www.appalachianbooks.com
Abebooks http://www.abe.com Home to
thousands of used book dealers around the world.
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Discography
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Coal Mining Women Rounder Records: 1997
Featured artists include Hazel Dickens, Sarah Gunning, Phyllis Boyens,
Florence Reese, and the Reel World String Band.
Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice, Come All You Tenderhearted and also
Signs and Wonders, both available from June
Appal
I met Ginny and Kay at the Augusta Heritage Workshops in 1986. They
sing traditional hymns, shapenote songs and more. (Ginny taught me "Sister
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely.")
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard, Pioneering Women of Bluegrass
Smithsonian-Folkways
Homemade American Music: Mike Seeger, Alice Gerrard, Tommy Jarrell,
Roscoe Holcomb, Lily May Ledford, Elizabeth Cotten, Hank Bradley, Tracy
Schwarz, Dewey Balfa, Irene Herrmann, Stefan Senders, Jody Stecher, many
others. (1978) Video, available from Mike
Seeger http://mikeseeger.info/html/discs.html
Jean Ritchie Visit
her website! http://members.aol.com/greenhays/page6.htm
Jean has published and recorded so many things for so many years they're
too numerous to list here. So isn't it great she's got her own place in
cyberspace?
O Sister! The Women's Bluegrass Collection. Various Artists. Order
or listen at Amazon.com
The better half of "Oh Brother Where Art Thou!" Features a
wide variety of performers, from authentic voices like Ginny Hawker and
Hazel Dickens to the more contemporary commercial intepreters like Alison
Krause.
Reel World String Band, Appalachian Wind, Flying Fish: 1990 Order
or listen at Amazon.com
This all-women string band from Kentucky is my all-time favorite! They
perform both traditional and new songs.
June Appal Recordings
http://www.appalshop.org/junappal
Appalshop's record label produces recordings that affirm Appalachian
culture, featuring both traditional mountain masters and contemporary artists.
June Appal specializes in releasing traditional music from the Appalachian
mountains. However, June Appal offers a variety of music from the mountains
including bluegrass, blues, and newer sounds.
Appalachian Music
http://www.uky.edu/RGS/AppalCenter/mus301.htm
Dr Ron Pen teaches a course at the University of Kentucky covering the
various sacred and secular styles of the southern Appalachian region and,
in particular, eastern Kentucky Genres that will be studied include: Child
ballads, native American ballads, lyric folk songs, play party and recreational
songs, unionization., protest, and work songs, shape note singing, Old
Regular Baptist hymnody, gospel, old time dance music, hillbilly, bluegrass,
and country music. This site includes his reading and listening list.
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Activist Organizations
Appalachian Women's Alliance
http://appalachianwomen.org
P.O. Box 688, Floyd, VA 24091 (540) 745-5345
The Appalachian Women's Alliance is a grassroots network of women from
six states who are identifying common issues, defining a common vision,
practicing new ways of being and relating to each other, and beginning
to share a common hope.
Appalachian Studies Association,
Regional Service and Activism http://www.appalachianstudies.org/
This site includes a discussion forum, links to federal and state legislators,
funding links, school links, teaching links, and related service and advocacy
sites.
Grassroots Leadership
http://www.grass-roots.org/usa/grlead.shtml
Grassroots Leadership is a statewide (and regional) community organizing
effort that works with established and emerging community-organizing groups
to provide them technical assistance and training and the support they
need to coalesce around issues in their own communities. It also provides
networking and an overall umbrella under which participating groups may
work together toward common goals. The organization was founded in 1980
by Si Kahn, a folksinger and song writer and long-time activist with deep
roots in the civil-rights movement.
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth http://www.kftc.org/
KFTC is a statewide citizens organization working for a new balance
of power and a just society.
Save Our Cumberland Mountains
http://www.socm.org
SOCM -- A rural Tennessee citizen's organization working for social,
environmental, and economic justice.
Urban Appalachian Council of Greater
Cincinnati http://www.uacvoice.org/
The Urban Appalachian Council's programs focus on education, leadership
development, family and human services, cultural celebration and access
to employment and training.
Virginia Organizing
Project http://www.virginia-organizing.org/
The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) is a statewide grassroots organization
dedicated to challenging injustice by empowering people in local communities
to address issues that affect the quality of their lives. VOP especially
encourages the participation of those who have traditionally had little
or no voice in our society. This site has a wealth of "how to"
resources and action alerts.
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Appalachian Resources and
Research Links
Appalachian Women
http://cass.etsu-tn.edu/archives/women.htm
From the archives of Appalachia, East Tennessee State University
Appalachian
Studies/Women's Issues Resources http://vcenter.acaweb.org/AppalachianStudies/WomensStudies.htm
Researched and annotated by: Nedra Wheeler, VIRGINIA
INTERMONT COLLEGE
Appalachian Center at
the University of Kentucky
A multi-disciplinary institute created in 1977 to link University of
Kentucky resources with Appalachian communities in programs of Research,
Instruction, and Service.
Appalachian College Association http://www.acaweb.org/
The Appalachian connection for teaching and learning. Information about
courses, databases and more.
Appalachian Resources
On The Web - Shepherd College http://www.shepherd.edu/passweb/links.htm
Shepherd College coordinates a heritage festival each fall, in addition
to their performing arts series. This page contains links to information
about the festival and much more: Research Centers, Archives, Academic
Programs, Environmental Issues, Publications, Multicultural Issues, Events,
Literature...
Appalachian Studies Association
Research Resources http://www.appalachianstudies.org/
The Appalachian Studies Association promotes study and research to expand
knowledge of Appalachia. It does this by publishing its Journal of Appalachian
Studies and maintaining a network of information resources. This site
includes: A Selected Bibliography of Scholarship on Appalachia,
Archives and Manuscript Collections, Bibliographies and Databases, Information
Directories, Libraries, and Research Centers.
Appalachian Power
http://www.appalachianpower.com/
"The goal of this site is to help sustain, preserve and enhance
the Appalachian Heritage culture to raise awareness of the individualist
spirit that has sustained this region." Oral histories, photos and
more.
AppalShop http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Appal/
Appalshop began in 1969 as a War on Poverty program to train mountain
young people in media production skills. Rather than leave the region to
find work in the nation's urban centers, the young people created their
own non-profit media company and began making films about the culture andsocial
issues of Appalachia. It has grown to become and award-winning arts and
media center in Whitesburg, KY.
Augusta Heritage Center
http://www.augustaheritage.com/
The Augusta Heritage Center of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins,
West Virginia is dedicated to making traditional music, crafts, dancing
and folklore available to visitors andresidents alike. Since 1973, thousands
of people of all ages, from all 50 states and many foreign countries have
found their way to this picturesque mountain town.Here, on the campus of
Davis & Elkins College, they learn, share and enjoy this interesting
and valuable heritage.
Center for Appalachian Studies at
East Tennessee State University http://cass.etsu.edu/
The Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State
University is a hub of scholarly, educational, public service, and artistic
projects addressing the needs and interests of the Appalachian region.
Center for the Study of Ethnicity
and Gender in Appalachia http://web.marshall.edu/csega/
The Center operates under the ageis of the College of Liberal Arts at
Marshall University in Huntington, WV. It brings together resources and
scholars from several other academic units, including the Oral History
of Appalachia Program and the Special Collections of the Morrow Library.
New!! They invite humanities scholars
to apply for resident fellowships, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
Preference will be given to scholars who focus on those ethnic and gender
aspects of identity that have been most invisible, such as African Americans,
persons of alternative gender identities, persons of Native American ancestry.
To be considered, candidates should have the doctorate or equivalent professional
experience.
Highlander
Center http://www.highlandercenter.org/
The Highlander Folk School (founded by Myles Horton in 1932) is now
called the Highlander Research and Education Center. It's located on a
100-acre farm overlooking the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in New
Market, Tennessee, about 20 miles east of Knoxville. Through the years
Highlander was a key location for the training of activists in the labor,
civil rights and anti-poverty movements.
John C Campbell Folk School
http://www.folkschool.com/
On this 372 acre farm-campus in the mountains of western North Carolina
, they offer more than 450 week long and weekend classes for adults year
round covering a wide variety of traditional and contemporary crafts, folk
music, folk dance, photography, nature studies, cooking, gardening, writing,
and storytelling.
H-Appalachia
Appalachian History and Studies E-Mail Discussion Group
H-Appalachia is devoted to the discussion of issues relating to the
life and culture, both past and present, of the Appalachian region of the
United States. Through the list, subscribers and editors communicate current
research and research interests; discuss new articles, books, papers, methods
and tools of analysis. Discussion Threads and message logs of H-Appalachia
may be accessed from this site. A Directory listing of participating members
is available for consultation.
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Learn
more about Appalachian women musicians:
Music in Appalachia
List of resources available at the Archives of Appalachian Music, East
Tennessee State University
Jean Ritchie
June Carter Cash http://www.junecartercash.com/bio.htm
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