Pew Learning Center & Ellison Library

Appalachian Music & Dance Bibliography

rev. 8/15/05

Books

Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Study of American Folklore, An Introduction, 4 th ed. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1998.

Cauthen, Joyce H. With Fiddle and Well-Rosined Bow. Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, 1989.

Cohen, John and Mike Seeger. Old-Time String Band Songbook. New York: Oak Publications, 1976.

Conway, Cecelia. African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Study of Folk Traditions. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995.

Delmore, Alton. Truth is Stranger Than Publicity.   Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press, 1977.

Epstein, Dena J. Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.

Gura, Philip F. America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth-Century. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Jones, Loyal. Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford.   Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, 1984.

Lilly, John, ed. Mountains of Music: West Virginia Traditional Music from Goldenseal. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Linn, Karen.   That Half-Barbaric Twang: The Banjo in American Popular Culture. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994.

Malone, Bill C. Country Music, U.S.A. Revised Edition. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.

__________   Southern Music, American Music. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1979.

Meade, Guthrie T. Jr. Country Music Sources: A Biblio-Discography of Commercially Recorded Traditional Music. Chapel Hill: Southern Folklife Collection, University of North Carolina, 2002.

Milnes, Gerald. Play Of A Fiddle: Traditional Music, Dance, and Folklore in West Virginia. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999.

Nathan, Hans. Dan Emmett and the Rise of Negro Minstrelsy. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1962.

Russell, Tony. Country Music Records: a Discography, 1921-1942. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Smith, Ralph Lee.   Appalachian Dulcimer Traditions. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1997.

Titon, Jeff Todd.   Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

Tribe, Ivan M. The Stonemans: An Appalachian Family and the Music That Shaped Their Lives. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Webb, Robert Lloyd.   Ring the Banjar!: The Banjo in America From Folklore to Factory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Museum, 1984.

Wiggins, Gene.   Fiddlin' Georgia Crazy: Fiddlin' John Carson, His Real World, and the World of His Songs.   Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Wolfe, Charles K. The Devil's Box: Masters of Southern Fiddling. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press: Vanderbilt University Press, 1998.

__________   A Good-Natured Riot: The Birth of the Grand Ole Opry. Nashville: Country Music Foundation Press and Vanderbilt University Press, 1999.

__________   Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

__________   Tennessee Strings: The Story of Country Music in Tennessee. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1977.

Wolfe, Charles K. and Ted Olson, eds. The Bristol Sessions: Writings About the Big Bang of Country Music. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005.

Zwonitzer, Mark. Will you miss me when I'm gone?: The Carter Family & Their Legacy in American Music. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

Ballads & Singing

Campbell, Olive Dame and Cecil J. Sharp. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. New York: Putnam, 1917.

Cobb, Buell E. The Sacred Harp: A Tradition and Its Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.

Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, vol. 2, The Folk Ballads from North Carolina . Henry M. Belden and Arthur Palmer Hudson, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 1952.

__________ vol. 3, The Folk Songs from North Carolina . Henry M. Belden and Arthur Palmer, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 1952.

Jackson, George Pullen. White Spirituals of the Southern Uplands. New York: Dover Publications, 1965.

Patterson, Beverly Bush.   The Sound of the Dove: Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Randolph, Vance. Ozark Folksongs, vol. I-III. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1980.

Ritchie, Jean. Singing Family of the Cumberlands. New York: Oxford University Press, 1955.

Sawin, Patricia.   Listening for a Life: A Dialogic Ethnography of Bessie Eldreth Through Her Songs and Stories. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 2004.

Scarborough, Dorothy. A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains. New York: Columbia University Press, 1937.

Sharp, Cecil J. English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, Vol. I & II. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

Swan, M.L. The New Harp of Columbia. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978.

White, Newman Ivey, ed. The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1952.

Bluegrass

Artis, Bob.   Bluegrass : From the Lonesome Wail of a Mountain Love Song to the Hammering Drive of the Scruggs-style Banjo, The Story of an American Musical Tradition .   New York : Hawthorn Books, 1975.

Cantwell, Robert.   Bluegrass Breakdown: The Making of the Old Southern Sound. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Price, Steven D.   Old as the Hills: The Story of Bluegrass Music.   New York: Viking Press, 1975.

Rosenberg, Neil V.   Bluegrass: A History. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Smith, Richard D.   Can't You Hear Me Callin': The Life of Bill Monroe, Father of Bluegrass.   Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000.

Wright, John.   Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music.   Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Dance

Emery, Lynne Fauley. Black Dance, From 1619 to Today. Hightstown, NJ: Princeton Book Company, 1988.

Jones, Bessie and Bess Lomax Hawes. Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage. New York: Harper and Row, 1972.

Seeger, Mike. Talking Feet. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1992.

Sharp, Cecil J. and Maud Karpeles. The Country Dance Book, Parts V and VI. London: Novello and Company, 1918. Reprinted, Carshalton, Surrey, England: H. Styles, 1985.

Spalding, Susan Eike and Jane Harris Woodside, ed. Communities In Motion. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1995.

The Appalachian Region

Campbell, John C. The Southern Highlander and His Homeland. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1921.

Drake, Richard B. A History of Appalachia. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2001.

McNeil, W.K. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1989.

Olson, Ted. Blue Ridge Folklife. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Shapiro, Henry. Appalachia on Our Mind: The Southern Mountains and Mountaineersin the American Consciousness, 1870-1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1978.

Whisnant, David E. All That is Native and Fine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.

Williams, John Alexander. Appalachia: A History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Videos & DVDs

Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp (2007)

Ballad of a Mountain Man: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford (1990).

High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass (1994).

Legends of Old-Time Music (1995).

Legends of Traditional Fingerstyle Guitar   (1994).

Mountain Legacy   (1997).

Shady Grove: Old Time Music From North Carolina, Kentucky & Virginia (1997).

Songcatcher (2000).

Sprout Wings and Fly (1983).

Talking Feet: Solo Southern Dance, Buck, Flatfoot and Tap (1987).

That High Lonesome Sound: The High Lonesome Sound. The End of an Old Song. Sara and Maybelle. (1996).