The Appalachian experience : : proceedings of the 6th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference / / edited by Barry M. Buxton.
The Proceedings of the 6th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference contains papers on a variety of academic disciplines and contemporary issues, reflecting interest in Appalachia from both scholarly and activist viewpoints. Topics addressed include ethnic diversity, literature, politics and government...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boone, NC : : Appalachian State University,, [1983] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 1983 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 251 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction/Jim Miller
- Part 1: Appalachian Images and Issues of Ethnic Diversity. Images of Appalachia: A Critical Discussion/Melinda B. Wagner, Allen Batteau, and Archie Green
- Correlates of Appalachian Identification Among Appalachian Migrants/William W. Philliber
- Ethnic Conflict in an Appalachian Craft Cooperative: On the Application of Structural Ethnicity to Mountaineers and Outsiders/Susan Emley Keefe
- A Preliminary Look at the Welsh Component of Celtic Influence in Appalachia/Loyal Jones
- The Retreat from Consensus: An Exploration of Conflict Analysis
- Part 2: Appalachian Literature. "Rings around a Hurt":The Dialectic Structure of The Mountains Have Come Closer/John H. Mongle
- "Naked Words that Have No Subtle Meaning":Poetry and Teaching in the Writings of Don West/Michael Henson
- Mary Lee Settle's Transmontane Society/Nancy Carol Joyner
- Part 3: Appalachian Politics and Government. Newsmaking and Social Change in Eastern Kentucky: "Why Aren't They Telling Our Side"/Sally Ward Maggard
- The Congressional and Gubernatorial Elections of 1982 in Appalachia/Phillip A. Grant, Jr
- Appalachian Origin and Political Activity/Phillip J. Obermiller and Robert Oldenick
- When the Bank Failed/John L. Bell, Jr
- Progressive Government in a Company Town/Russell D. Parker
- Part 4: Aspects of Daily Life: Yesterday and Today. Store Talk in Appalachian Social Life/George B. Ray
- Locall Produced Religious Broadcasts in the Mountains of Northwest North Carolina/Howard Dorgan
- One-Room School Life in Appalachian Kentucky/James M. Gifford
- Beyond the Quaint and Curious: Folklore Research in Appalachia/Jean Haskell Speer
- Part 5: Black Appalachians in Social Histry. The Black Appalachian Church: An Agent for Change or System Maintenance?/Stanley Taylor and Arthur J. Cox
- Race Relations in Asheville, North Carolina: Three Incidents, 1868-1906/Eric J. Obon
- Part 6: Culture, Mental Health and Personality. The Folk Banjo and Clawhammer Performance Practicce in the Upper South: A Study of Origins/William H. Tallmadge
- Mental Health Problems of Rural Appalachians with Pulmonary Diseases: An Exploration of the Relevant Issues/Marica Fr. Barron and John G. McNutt
- Part 7: Economic Development in Appalachia: New Perspectives. The ARC-Some Questions Relative to Its Past and Possible Future/Edgar Bingham
- Appalachia as an "Enterprise Zone": Some Speculation on the Future Direction of Federal Policy toward the Region/Thomas R. Shannon
- Housing Aspirations of Central Applachian Coal Miners/Rosemary Carucci Goss
- Part 8: The Humanities in Appalachia: Progress Reports. Missing Chapters: West Virginia Woman in History/Barbara Matz
- A Case for a Humanities Curriculum Incorporating Sciences and Local Studies/Myra Jones
- Library Outreach in Eastern Kentucky/Judy Martin
- A Report on the East Kentucky Grass Roots Poetry Project/George Ella Lyon
- Developing an Appalachian Literature Anthology/Nellie McNeil and Joyce Squibb
- Part 9: Abstracts. Involving Youth in Appalachian Studies: Collaborative Efforts Between University and High School Faculties/Grace T. Edwards and Joyce L. Graham
- Black Hillbilly Music: Black Influence in Non-Blues, Secular Music in the Southern Mountains/Edward J. Cabbell
- Lily May Ledford and the Coon Creek Girls: Radio's First All-girl String Band/Ellesa Clay High
- Oral Histories of Appalachian Women-By Women/Joy Huntley
- Women's Work, Women's Lives: Factory Labor and Its Impact on Women in Western North Carolina/Mary Anglin
- "We're Looking for Work":Perspectives on Workplaces in Appalachia/Dick Futrell
- Highlander in the Center of Black Southern Politics: The Problems and Prospects of Interracial Cooperation in Social Change/William H. Turner
- The Class Experience of Appalachian Coal Miners/Michael Yarrow
- Staying Alive, Chemical Hazards in Maintenance Work/Paul Becker
- Reclaiming Our Health: Grass Roots Epidemiology Along Yellow Creak.