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1 online resource (266 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Mountain Bred; 2. Personal and Vocational Ventures; 3. The Real Calling; 4. Fulfillment; 5. Mostly Personal; 6. Bouquets and Arrows; Bibliography; Appendices; A Lunsford Sampler. |
| Summary |
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would ""cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song""--His Southern highlands folk-song compilations now constitute one of the largest collections of its kind in the Library of Congress -- but he did much more than acquire songs. He preserved and promoted the Appalachian mountain tradition for generations of people, founding in 1928 the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville, North Carolina, an annual event that has shaped America's festival movement. Loyal Jones pens a lively biography of a man considered to be Appalachian music royalty. He al. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973.
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Lunsford, Bascom Lamar, 1882-1973. |
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Folk singers -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography.
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Folk singers. |
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Southern Appalachian Region. |
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Biographies.
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Folk music -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
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Folk music. |
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Folk songs, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Jones, Loyal. Minstrel of the Appalachians : The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, ©2015 9780813190273 |
| ISBN |
9780813148823 (electronic book) |
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0813148820 (electronic book) |
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