Ozark CountryUniv. Press of Mississippi, 1995 - 194 páginas |
Contenido
| 1 | |
Family Ties | 17 |
At Work | 51 |
Folk Customs | 75 |
Ozark and Appalachian Folk Music | 97 |
Games and Entertainment | 131 |
Folk Narratives | 151 |
THE OZARK FOLK CENTER | 167 |
Notes | 173 |
Bibliographical Essay | 181 |
Bibliography | 185 |
Index | 189 |
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Términos y frases comunes
American Appalachian Arkan ballads basket Baughman's motif Big Flat blacksmith broom called candy Cherokees Child ballads Christmas Collected by W. K. corn country music crafts culture customs dance doctors festival fiddle fol doodle day George Vickers girl groups guitar hammered dulcimer harmonica Herrean hole horse important Indian instrument involved jayhawkers johnboat kansas lady legends lived log cabin mill Missouri mountain dulcimer musicians never night nineteenth century Ozark County Ozark Folk Center Ozark folk music Ozark folklore Ozarks Mountaineer penny a wink person picking play-parties played player popular potter quilting Randolph region rhymes rural says Searcy County shoes Simon Sing penny soap songs Stone County story strings style Susie Taney County tion told took tree Turnbo's usually Vance Randolph W. K. McNeil Washington County whack fol doodle White River wind and rain wood young
Pasajes populares
Página 4 - They are the American counterparts of the latterday white barbarians of the Old World — Rifis, Albanians, Kurds, Pathans, and Hairy Ainus ; but, whereas these latter are belated survivals of an ancient barbarism, the Appalachians present the melancholy spectacle of a people who have acquired civilization and then lost it.
Página 144 - To buy a stick of candy. One for you And one for me And one for Sister Annie.
Página 91 - Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below, When what to my wondering eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick. More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled, and shouted and called them by name; "Now, Dasher! Now, Dancer! Now Prancer and Vixen! On, Comet! On Cupid! On Donder and Blitzen! To the top of the porch! To the top of the wall! Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away...
Página 113 - I had never succeeded in acquiring the dances of my own country, much less the extraordinary movements of those of America; so I amused myself with looking on, and watching the arrivals, who thronged in from all ends and corners of the State. A great number of the young women were light and graceful figures, and looked very interesting on horseback, their cheeks flushed with their quick ride. But they seemed as if they were going on a pilgrimage, instead of coming to a ball, — for each fair dame...
Página 142 - Went to the well to wash my toe ; When I got back my chicken was gone ; What time is it, old witch ? (Ans.) "One o'clock" (and so on up to twelve o'clock).
Página 6 - Canada on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south, and from the Mississippi River on the east to the Rocky Mountains on the west.
Página 144 - Little wind, blow on the hill-top; Little wind, blow down the plain; Little wind, blow up the sunshine, Little wind, blow off the rain.