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Great Smoky Mountains Folklife

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical ev...

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Autor principal: Williams, Michael Ann
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1995.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART ONE: Historical Overview; 1. Settlement and Removal; 2. "Discovering" the Folklife of the Great Smokies; PART TWO: Changing Traditions in the Twentieth Century; 3. Music and Dance; 4. Material Folk Traditions; 5. Food, Drink, and Medicine; 6. Verbal Lore; PART THREE: Tourism and the National Park; 7. Parklore; 8. Displacement and Sense of Place in the National Park; 9. Displays of Culture; Bibliographic Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.