Critical Essays in Appalachian Life & Culture : proceedings of the Fifth Annual Appalachian Studies Conference / edited by Rick Simon, Grace Toney Edwards.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edwards, Grace Toney, editor.

Simon, Rick, editor.

Series:

Appalachian Consortium Press Publications

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Appalachian Region--Congresses.

Appalachian Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (130 pages)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Appalachian State University, 1905.

Summary:

The proceedings from the 1982 Appalachian Studies Conference includes contributions by Rick Simon; Ronald D. Eller; Deborah Morentz Markley and Brady J. Deaton; William W. Philliber and Phillip J. Obermiller; Virginia McCoy Watkins and Diana Gullet Trevino; Grace Toney Edwards; Harold Branam; Parks Lanier; Joan Moser; Melinda Bollar Wagner; and Thomas Plaut.

Contents:

Introduction / Rick Simon

Keynote address. Education and change / Sue Thrasher

I. Values and political economy. Introduction / Rick Simon

Harry Caudill and the burden of mountain liberalism / Ronald D. Eller

Human values and resource development in the political economy of Appalachia : a synthesis of two regional forums / Deborah

Morentz Markley and Brady J. Deaton

II. Urban minorities. Introduction / Ronald Eller

Black Appalachian migrants : the issue of dual minority status / William W. Philliber and Phillip J. Obermiller

Occupational and employment status of Appalachian migrant women / Virginia McCoy Watkins and Diana Gullett Trevino

III. Language and literature of the Appalachian region. Introduction / Grace Toney Edwards

Generations : the theme of Jim Wayne Miller's Dialogue with a dead man / Harold Branam

Kit Brandon's choice / Parks Lanier

IV. Culture, images and change. Introduction / Joan Moser

Appalachia in America's future : alternative cultural forms / Melinda Bollar Wagner

Notes on voluntary service networking and community building / Thomas Plaut

V. Abstracts. Renewable energy for Appalachian development / C. James Bier

The need for a descriptive study of Appalachian children's language development / Dina Blum-West

Floating down the stream of time : an Appalachian rural community confronting mass society / Tom Boyd

Appalachian change : the federal involvement / Michael J. Bradshaw

Appalachian serpent-handlers in the urban midwest : a test of a satisfaction hypothesis / Michael Carter and Kenneth Ambrose

Looking back . . . before integration / Victoria A. Casey

The homemade toys of Appalachia / Debbie Collins

Sherwood Anderson's Appalachian years : an overview / William T. Cornett

Tales of power : a community perspective / Richard Couto

Location decisions of Appalachian youth : a case study in a rural Appalachian community / Barbara Daniel

Land for East Kentucky's development : an inventory of mountain top mining sites / Douglas Dotterweich

Planning for Appalachia's future : the forest service and public input / L. Sue Greer

The Nada Tunnel : through fact and through the imagination / Larry G. Meadows

Made in the mountains : folk art and traditional handicraft / Laurel Horton

The Cherokee religious experience / Richard A. Humphrey

Toward a theory of Appalachia in advanced capitalism / Stephen P. Legeay

Ethnicization and urban Appalachians / Martin N. Marger

Pine Mountain Boarding High School : a unique educational community, 1930-49 / Walter Oldendorf

A critique of Appalachian sociolinguistics / Brenda Cottrell Pfaff

An ethnography of speaking in an Appalachian community / George B. Ray

Oh, how I want to go home : the myth of return and ethnic identification among Appalachian migrants to urban places / Terrence

Russell

Women in Appalachian education : an initial inquiry / Ruth Scott

New ideas and new cultural experiments in Appalachia : a historical outline / Jewel L. Tabor

The world's largest pottery : doues Appalachia hold its future? / Jack Welch

The Blue Ridge Mountains : a regional ecology of natural hazards / Gene Wilhelm, Jr

Appalachia and the World's Fair / Michael J. McDonald and William Bruce Wheeler

Methods, means and materials for teaching Appalachian studies / Carolyn M. Hinson

Unraveling folklore : the thread of Appalachia / Joyce L. Graham

The impact of economic development on women : women and the welfare state in Southern Appalachia / Mary Anglin

The Richmond, Kentucky solar energy community assessment / J. Allen Singleton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-4696-3683-2

OCLC:

1249168991