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Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music: 34 Historic Songs, Ballads, and Instrumentals Recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains by "Song Catcher" Joseph S. Hall (review)

Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music: 34 Historic Songs, Ballads, and Instrumentals Recorded in the... r e Cor DING r e VIe WS Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music: 34 Historic Songs, Ballads, and Instru- mentals Recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains by “Song Catcher” Joseph S. Hall. Various artists. Compiled by Ted olson. liner notes by michael montgomery and Ted o lson. 2010. Great Smoky mountains a ssociation o ver the course of the last decade, reissues of early a merican commercial country music, both popular and obscure, have become more affordable and available than ever before (mostly through the efforts of various e uropean labels). Old- Time Smoky Mountain Music, compiled and annotated by two prominent scholars in the field of a ppalachian studies, enhances these reissues with a refreshing alternative: a select group of thirty-four noncommercial recordings from appa- lachia’s Great Smoky mountains, all collected in 1939. a t a time when a merican old-time music appears increasingly in the academy, inspiring curricula and ensembles everywhere from community colleges to Ivy l eague institutions, such a release stirs excitement, playfully rekindling the myth of undiscovered, authentic mountain music. f ollowing its inauguration in 1934, Great Smoky m ountains National Park began a controversial process of “purchasing” land. The main obstacle here remained human: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Music University of Illinois Press

Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music: 34 Historic Songs, Ballads, and Instrumentals Recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains by "Song Catcher" Joseph S. Hall (review)

American Music , Volume 29 (3) – Nov 12, 2011

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University of Illinois Press
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1945-2349

Abstract

r e Cor DING r e VIe WS Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music: 34 Historic Songs, Ballads, and Instru- mentals Recorded in the Great Smoky Mountains by “Song Catcher” Joseph S. Hall. Various artists. Compiled by Ted olson. liner notes by michael montgomery and Ted o lson. 2010. Great Smoky mountains a ssociation o ver the course of the last decade, reissues of early a merican commercial country music, both popular and obscure, have become more affordable and available than ever before (mostly through the efforts of various e uropean labels). Old- Time Smoky Mountain Music, compiled and annotated by two prominent scholars in the field of a ppalachian studies, enhances these reissues with a refreshing alternative: a select group of thirty-four noncommercial recordings from appa- lachia’s Great Smoky mountains, all collected in 1939. a t a time when a merican old-time music appears increasingly in the academy, inspiring curricula and ensembles everywhere from community colleges to Ivy l eague institutions, such a release stirs excitement, playfully rekindling the myth of undiscovered, authentic mountain music. f ollowing its inauguration in 1934, Great Smoky m ountains National Park began a controversial process of “purchasing” land. The main obstacle here remained human:

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American MusicUniversity of Illinois Press

Published: Nov 12, 2011

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