Many Faces of Appalachia : proceedings of the 7th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference / edited by Sam Gray.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gray, Sam, editor.

Series:

Appalachian Consortium Press Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)

Place of Publication:

Appalachian State University 1985

Boone, North Carolina : Appalachian State University, 1905.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The proceedings from the 1984 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Sam Gray; Derrell Roberts; Laurel Horton; Grace Toney Edwards; Parks Lanier; Ron Wlloughby; Allen Bateau; Thomas A. Arcury and Julia D. Porter; David K. Evans; Paul McClure; Cheryl Claasen; Bennie Lee Sinclair; Tom Boyd; Thomas R. Shannon; Ted Couillard; Gene Wiggins; John C. Inscoe; and David Carpenter.

Contents:

Introduction / Sam Gray

I. Northern Georgia exceptions : politics. The reconstruction careers of Joseph Brown and Benjamin Hill / Derrell Roberts

II. Appalchian handicraft : commercialism and authenticity. Nineteenth century quilts in Macon County, North Carolina / Laurel Horton

III. Interpreting the mountain woman's experience. Emma Bell Miles, pioneer folklorist of Appalachia / Grace Toney Edwards

The science poetry of Marilou Awiakta / Parks Lanier

Going home / Ron Willoughby

IV. Social theory and social life in Appalachia : a panel. A contribution to the critique of political economy / Allen Bateau

V. Current research in community issues. Households and families in Eastern Kentucky in 1900 / Thomas A. Arcury and Julia D.

Porter

Pre-Columbian Cherokees. Pre-Columbian cultural contact between Chibchan and Iroquoian linguistic groups / David K. Evans

VII. North Georgia writers past and present. These also climbed Parnassus : an overview of Georgia mountain authors / Paul McClure

VIII. The business of tradition : trades, handicrafts and household enterprises. The shell button industry in Appalachia / Cheryl Claassen

IX. Regional poetry. Facoes of Appalachia in poetry / Bennie Lee Sinclair

X. Communities : participation or retreat. Progress is our most important product : decline in citizen participation and the professionalization of schooling in an Appalachian rural county / Tom Boyd

XI. Economics I : macro. Surviving the 1990s : inter-regional variation in economic problems / Thomas R. Shannon Historical perspectives on energy, industrialization and the shaping of Appalachia / Ted Couillard

XII. North Georgia music. North Georgia musicians and groups in the 1920s and 1930s / Gene Wiggins

XIII. Historical diversity in Appalachian communities. Diversity in antebellum mountain life : the towns of western North Carolina / John C. Inscoe

XIV. The three r's : research, resources, records. The Great Smokies : diverse perceptions of the park as a resource / David Carpenter

XV. Tourism then and now. A plunge into the past : Henry Ford and friends tour the Southern Appalachians / Charles Gunter

XVI. Moonshine and beyond. A touch of Mountain Dew : art and history of whiskey-making in North Georgia / Ray Rensi and Leo Downing.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

1-4696-3686-7