Many Faces of Appalachia : : proceedings of the 7th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference /

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

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; To...

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Gray, Sam,
Place / Publishing House:Boone, North Carolina : : Appalachian State University,, 1905.
Year of Publication:1905
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
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Table of 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.

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