| Description |
vi, 258 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1955. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
"The "singing family" of which Jean Ritchie writes is that of her parents, Balis and Abigail Ritchie, and their fourteen children, all born and reared in Viper, Kentucky, deep in the Cumberland Mountains. Jean, the youngest of the clan, grew up to be a world renowned folksinger. But she was hardly unique in the family. All the Ritchies sang - when they worked, when they prayed, when they rejoiced, even when tragedy struck. Singing Family of the Cumberlands is both an appealing account of family life and a treasury of American folklore and folksong. In the deceptively simple but picturesque language of rural Kentucky, Jean Ritchie tells of a way of life now nearly vanished and of a gentle, upright people shielded from the outside world by forbidding mountain ranges, preserving the traditions of their forebears."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Recollections at my birth, and some early memories of my own -- Summer twilights on the front porch, and early episodes in my life which taught me that real life is a very hard thing -- More childhood troubles. of my Dad and his hard ways with us -- Getting to know my father -- Of my parents, their courting and marrying -- Of our working together, and of Dad's schemes for making money -- Memories of Granddad Aught and Granny Katty -- Uncle Jason and seven generations of Ritchies -- How some of our songs first came into the family -- The Ritchies take Christmas -- Of fall days and harvesting, and falling in love -- Marriage, birth, and death within the family -- The ways of the world. |
| Subject |
Ritchie, Jean.
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Ritchie, Jean. |
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Folk singers -- Appalachian Region -- Biography.
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Folk singers. |
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Appalachian Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Ritchie family.
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Ritchie family. |
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Folk music -- Appalachian Region.
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Folk music. |
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Folk songs, English -- Appalachian Region.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Geschichte. |
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Autobiographie. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
0813116791 (alkaline paper) |
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9780813116792 (alkaline paper) |
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0813101867 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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9780813101866 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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