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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
1995.
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Résumé: | 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 events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later. This book surveying the rich folklife of this special place in the American South offers a view of the culture as it has been defined and changed by scholars, missionaries, th. |
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Description matérielle: | 1 online resource. |
ISBN: | 9781621033875 |