Sang Branch Settlers Folksongs and Tales of an Eastern Kentucky Mountain Family Tapa blanda - 1980

Kentucky: Pikeville College Press, 1980. First Edition, First Printing. A Good Soft Cover in Illustrated wraps. Good/No Dust Jacket As Issued. Carefully handled, Text clean, Bindings firm. A few pencil underlines; light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. REF: American Anthropologist , 1976, p161/2. 'A classic about the life and culture of eastern Kentucky.' [Library Lane] Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River Cutshin and Greasy creeks folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century they had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears the farming methods, the household arts, and the games, ballads, dances, and tales that were their chief entertainment. This fascinating volume presents a great deal of raw data of three types, plus some limited analysis. The material all stems from one group of Appalachian kinsmen as an illustration of a particular heritage of oral literature. Part I… Leer más

Pikeville, Kentucky: Pikeville College Press of the Appalachian Studies Center, 1980. 1st paperback edition. Softcover. Very Good. 1st paperback edition. A Very Good copy. 8vo., xxi, 401 pp., illustrated with a frontispiece and musical score. Green, stiff illustrated paper wraps. Text block edges foxing, else a Near Fine copy. Originally printed in 1974 by the University of Texas as number 61 for the American Folklore Society's Memoir Series.

Pikeville College Press. Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Dust jacket has a tiny chip on bottom edge. Dust jacket now nicely protected in mylar cover.

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.