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Author : Patti McCord
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682261999
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Hillbillies written by Patti McCord and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : Patti McCord
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610757661
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Queen of the Hillbillies written by Patti McCord and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed “First Lady of the Ozarks” and “Queen of the Hillbillies,” spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks through newspaper columns, radio programs, and music festivals. Though her work made her one of the twentieth century’s preeminent folklorists, McCord was first and foremost an entertainer—at one time nearly as renowned as the hills she loved. Despite the encouragement of her contemporaries, McCord never published a collection of her work. In 1956, Vance Randolph wrote to her, “If you didn’t have such a mental block against writing books, I could show you how to make a book out of extracts from your columns. It would be very little work, and sell like hotcakes. . . . I could write a solemn little introduction, telling the citizens what a fine gal you are! The hell of it is, most of the readers know all about you.” In Queen of the Hillbillies, editors Patti McCord and Kristene Sutliff at last bring together the best of McCord’s published and previously unpublished writings to share her knowledge, humor, and inimitable spirit with a new generation of readers.
Author : Aaron K. Ketchell
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1421402432
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Holy Hills of the Ozarks written by Aaron K. Ketchell and published by Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM. This book was released on 2007-09-20 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Confronts readers with the implications of a popular tourist destination founded on the values and sentiments of American evangelical Protestantism.” —Thomas S. Bremer, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Over the past century, Branson, Missouri, has attracted tens of millions of tourists. Nestled in the heart of the Ozark Mountains, it offers a rare and refreshing combination of natural beauty and family-friendly recreation—from scenic lakes and rolling hills to theme parks and variety shows. It has boasted of big-name celebrities, like Wayne Newton, Andy Williams, and Petula Clark, as well as family entertainers like Mickey Gilley, the Shanghai Magic Troupe, Jim Stafford, and Yakov Smirnoff. But there is more to Branson’s fame than just recreation. As Aaron K. Ketchell discovers, a popular variant of Christianity underscores all Branson’s tourist attractions and fortifies every consumer success. In this lively and engaging study, Ketchell explores Branson’s unique blend of religion and recreation. He explains how the city became a mecca of conservative Christianity—a place for a “spiritual vacation”—and how, through conscious effort, its residents and businesses continuously reinforce its inextricable connection with the divine. Ketchell combines the study of lived religion, popular culture, evangelicalism, and contemporary American history to present an accurate and honest account of a distinctly American phenomenon. “As Ketchell brilliantly argues, Branson entrepreneurs wove Christian sentiment ‘into a fabric of nostalgia, premodern longing, and whitewashed rusticity.’” —Matthew Avery Sutton, The Christian Century “At a time when Jim Wallis and other observers have forecast the end of the prominence of right-wing-religion on the U.S. political stage, this book will cause many readers to question that prediction.” —David Stricklin, The Journal of Southern History
Author : Brooks Blevins
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860069
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Hill Folks written by Brooks Blevins and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ozark region, located in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, has long been the domain of the folklorist and the travel writer--a circumstance that has helped shroud its history in stereotype and misunderstanding. With Hill Folks, Brooks Blevins offers the first in-depth historical treatment of the Arkansas Ozarks. He traces the region's history from the early nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century and, in the process, examines the creation and perpetuation of conflicting images of the area, mostly by non-Ozarkers. Covering a wide range of Ozark social life, Blevins examines the development of agriculture, the rise and fall of extractive industries, the settlement of the countryside and the decline of rural communities, in- and out-migration, and the emergence of the tourist industry in the region. His richly textured account demonstrates that the Arkansas Ozark region has never been as monolithic or homogenous as its chroniclers have suggested. From the earliest days of white settlement, Blevins says, distinct subregions within the area have followed their own unique patterns of historical and socioeconomic development. Hill Folks sketches a portrait of a place far more nuanced than the timeless arcadia pictured on travel brochures or the backward and deliberately unprogressive region depicted in stereotype.
Author : Hannah Reed
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101553936
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Plan Bee written by Hannah Reed and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moraine, Wisconsin's annual Harmony Festival is anything but harmonious for Story Fischer, as a dead body makes an uninvited appearance in the parade-and the person who may be responsible for putting it there starts dating Story's mother...
Author : Y. R. Shin
Publisher : Poppypub
ISBN 13 : 9781952787034
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Fallen Queen (Mariposa Book 1) written by Y. R. Shin and published by Poppypub. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an already established large fan base, Fallen Queen is a bestselling epic fantasy in Korea. Fallen Queen will make readers root for its remarkable heroine with a dark past, in a richly built world full of intrigue, cocky knights, and a war that threatens bringing her secrets to light.
Author : Anthony Joseph Stanonis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331694
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Dixie Emporium written by Anthony Joseph Stanonis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this collection focus on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders and identify spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness. Simultaneous.
Author : Raymond E. White
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299210045
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (1 download)
Download or read book King of the Cowboys, Queen of the West written by Raymond E. White and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: And in a series of exhaustive appendixes, he documents their contributions to each medium they worked in. Testifying to both the breadth and the longevity of their careers, the book includes radio logs, discographies, filmographies, and comicographies that will delight historians and collectors alike."--Jacket.
Author : Stephanie Vander Wel
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051947
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Hillbilly Maidens, Okies, and Cowgirls written by Stephanie Vander Wel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PopMatters Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020 From the 1930s to the 1960s, the booming popularity of country music threw a spotlight on a new generation of innovative women artists. These individuals blazed trails as singers, musicians, and performers even as the industry hemmed in their potential popularity with labels like woman hillbilly, singing cowgirl, and honky-tonk angel. Stephanie Vander Wel looks at the careers of artists like Patsy Montana, Rose Maddox, and Kitty Wells against the backdrop of country music's golden age. Analyzing recordings and appearances on radio, film, and television, she connects performances to real and imagined places and examines how the music sparked new ways for women listeners to imagine the open range, the honky-tonk, and the home. The music also captured the tensions felt by women facing geographic disruption and economic uncertainty. While classic songs and heartfelt performances might ease anxieties, the subject matter underlined women's ambivalent relationships to industrialism, middle-class security, and established notions of femininity.
Author : Amy Sonnie
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1935554662
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power written by Amy Sonnie and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historians of the late 1960s have emphasised the work of a small group of white college activists and the Black Panthers, activists who courageously took to the streets to protest the war in Vietnam and continuing racial inequality. Poor and working-class whites have tended to be painted as spectators, reactionaries and even racists. Tracy and Amy Sonnie have been interviewing activists from the 1960s for nearly 10 years and here reject this narrative, showing how working-class whites, inspired by the Civil Rights Movement, fought inequality in the 1960s.
Author : Bart Plantenga
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299290530
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Yodel in Hi-Fi written by Bart Plantenga and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yodel in Hi-Fi explores the vibrant and varied traditions of yodelers around the world. Far from being a quaint and dying art, yodel is a thriving vocal technique that has been perennially renewed by singers from Switzerland to Korea, from Colorado to Iran. Bart Plantenga offers a lively and surprising tour of yodeling in genres from opera to hip-hop and in venues from cowboy campfires and Oktoberfests to film soundtracks and yogurt commercials. Displaying an extraordinary versatility, yodeling crosses all borders and circumvents all language barriers to assume its rightful place in the world of music. “If Wisconsin wasn’t on the yodel music map before, this book puts it there.”—Wisconsin State Journal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Commonwealth written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vance Randolph
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557282316
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Unprintable Ozark Folksongs and Folklore: Roll me in your arms written by Vance Randolph and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roll Me in Your Arms, Volume I includes 180 unexpurgated songs collected by Randolph, with tunes transcribed from the original singers.
Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062300563
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Author : Otto Ernest Rayburn
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1610757394
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Ozark Country written by Otto Ernest Rayburn and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published just days before America’s entry into World War II, Ozark Country is Otto Ernest Rayburn’s love letter to his adopted region. One of several chronicles of the Ozarks that garnered national attention during the Depression and war years, when many Americans craved stories about people and places seemingly untouched by the difficulties of the times, Rayburn’s colorful tour takes readers from the fictional village of Woodville into the backcountry of a region teeming with storytellers, ballad singers, superstitions, and home remedies. Rayburn’s tales—fantastical, fun, and unapologetically romantic—portray a world that had already nearly disappeared by the time they were written. Yet Rayburn’s depiction of the Ozarks resonates with notions of the region that have persisted in the American consciousness ever since.
Author : Steve J. Spears
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862546424
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Murder by Manuscript written by Steve J. Spears and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second installment of the adventures of Stella Pentangeli, "Lady Showbiz Detective," and Inspector Ng, a taciturn Chinese cop, the two detectives are entangled in a centuries-old mystery involving William Shakespeare and a resurrection cult. As they seek to discover the dramatist's involvement in the group, they encounter a variety of obstacles, including a present- day murderer who is following Shakespeare's recipe for "resurrection soup" but is using his fellow citizens for ingredients.
Author : Mark Zwonitzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127441
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? written by Mark Zwonitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music. Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing, has continued to exist in the music that is the legacy of the Carters—songs that have shaped and influenced generations of artists who have followed them. Brilliant in insight and execution, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is also an in-depth study of A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, and their bittersweet story of love and fulfillment, sadness and loss. The result is more than just a biography of a family; it is also a journey into another time, almost another world, and theirs is a story that resonates today and lives on in the timeless music they created.
