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Design Joseph Bathanti Appalachian Heritage, Volume 28, Number 4, Fall 2000, p. 23 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2000.0051 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435880/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:13 GMT from JHU Libraries The Folk school idea was inspired by the Danish Lutheran N.F.S. Grundrvig and was an educational experiment which inspired the J.C. Campbell Folk School in the 1920s and Highlander in the 1930s. The KET treatment confused mission and settlement schools. Mission schools were clear denominational efforts to promote schools in areas of Appalachia then not served by public schools. The settlement schools focused on wholistic community development and supported a system that actively encouraged regional folk music, dance and crafts, through a kind of cultural swapping. In fact, mission schools usually opposed dancing and fiddle music, for they were seen as the tools of the devil. It may be that reprints of key articles from Appalachian Notes might be useful—perhaps a small volume that might be entitled, "The Best of Appalachian Notes." It played, I think, a significant role in helping Appalachian Studies mature into a recognized scholarly activity during a very crucial period. Between before and after http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Joseph Bathanti Appalachian Heritage, Volume 28, Number 4, Fall 2000, p. 23 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2000.0051 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435880/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:13 GMT from JHU Libraries The Folk school idea was inspired by the Danish Lutheran N.F.S. Grundrvig and was an educational experiment which inspired the J.C. Campbell Folk School in the 1920s and Highlander in the 1930s. The KET treatment confused mission and settlement schools. Mission schools were clear denominational efforts to promote schools in areas of Appalachia then not served by public schools. The settlement schools focused on wholistic community development and supported a system that actively encouraged regional folk music, dance and crafts, through a kind of cultural swapping. In fact, mission schools usually opposed dancing and fiddle music, for they were seen as the tools of the devil. It may be that reprints of key articles from Appalachian Notes might be useful—perhaps a small volume that might be entitled, "The Best of Appalachian Notes." It played, I think, a significant role in helping Appalachian Studies mature into a recognized scholarly activity during a very crucial period. Between before and after

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