High Mountains Rising by Richard A. Straw

Author:Richard A. Straw
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780252071768
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2004-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

NOTES

1. Richard Harrington assessed the effects of the movie and soundtrack in the Washington Post, Aug. 12, 2001.

2. Guthrie T. Meade Jr., Dick Spottswood, and Douglas S. Meade, Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Southern Folklife Collection, 2002).

3. Jean Ritchie, Singing Family of the Cumberlands (New York: Oak Publications, 1955), 73–75.

4. Emma Bell Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains (New York: J. Pott, 1905), 69.

5. Musical Traditions, published in Great Britain and available online at <http://www.mustrad.org.uk>.

6. Olive Dame Campbell and Cecil J. Sharp, English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1917), viii-ix.

7. Francis James Child, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1882–98).

8. Songcatcher, the popular movie of 2001, was a very loose and highly romanticized version of the role played by settlement school teachers in the discovery of balladry in the Southern mountains and of Cecil Sharp’s arrival on the scene.

9. Cecil Sharp, The Country Dance Book (London: Novelle, 1918), pt. 5.

10. All of the recordings made by these performers are listed in Meade, Country Music Sources.

11. Charles Wolfe’s notes to The Bristol Sessions, CMF Records-011–1; Nolan Porterfield, Jimmie Rodgers: The Life and Times of America’s Blue Yodeler (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1979), 105–14; Ivan M. Tribe, The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993), 56–62.

12. Charles Wolfe and Richard Weize, In the Shadow of Clinch Mountains (Bear Family BCD 15865).

13. White Country Blues: A Lighter Shade of Blue (Columbia/Legacy C2K 47466).

14. Cecelia Conway, African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995).

15. Bill C. Malone, Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993).

16. Loyal Jones, Radio’s “Kentucky Mountain Boy,” Bradley Kincaid (Berea, Ky.: Appalachian Center, Berea College, 1980).

17. Pete Stamper, It All Happened in Renfro Valley (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999).

18. Lily May Ledford, Coon Creek Girl (Berea, Ky.: Appalachian Center, Berea College, 1991); William E. Lightfoot, “Belle of the Barn Dance: Reminiscing with Lulu Belle Wiseman Stamey,” Journal of Country Music 12:1 (1987): 2–16.

19. Loyal Jones, Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1984).

20. Annabel Morris Buchanan, “The Function of a Folk Festival,” Southern Folklore Quarterly 1:1 (Mar. 1937): 29–34.

21. David E. Whisnant, All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983).

22. See Anglo-American Ballads, vol. 1 (Rounder 1511; originally recorded in 1942 by the Archive of Folk Song, Library of Congress); Anglo-American Ballads, vol. 2 (Rounder 1516; originally recorded in 1943); Texas Gladden: Ballad Legacy (Rounder 116611; originally recorded in 1941 and 1946).

23. Jones, Minstrel of the Appalachians, 71–73.

24. Archie Green, notes to Sarah Ogan Gunning’s Girl of Constant Sorrow (Folk-Legacy Records FSA-26).

25. Jim Garland, Welcome the Traveler Home: Jim Garland’s Story of the Kentucky Mountains (Lexington: University Press of

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