The Life and Work of John C. Campbell (eBook)

Olive Dame Campbell (Autor)

Elizabeth M. Williams (Herausgeber)

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2017
720 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6856-2 (ISBN)

Infos

John C. Campbell (18671919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wifenoted social reformer and "e;songcatcher"e; Olive Dame Campbellinterviewing and profiling its people. His landmark work, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, yet little has been published about the Campbells and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia.Elizabeth McCutchen Williams has prepared the first critical edition of Olive Dame Campbell's comprehensive overview of her husband's life and worka project left unfinished at the time of Olive's death. Never before published, this unique volume draws extensively on diary entries and personal letters to illuminate the significance and lasting impact of John C. Campbell's contributions. The result is a dynamic blend of biography and collected correspondence that presents an insightful portrait of the influential educator and reformer.

Autor

American folklorist Olive Dame Campbell (1882–1954) was the author or coauthor of numerous books, including English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians and Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell. In 1925, she founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Elizabeth McCutchen Williams, research librarian and associate professor at Appalachian State University, is the author of Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell.

Inhalt

Foreword
Note on Editorial Method
Introduction
1. Family Background and Early Life, 1868-1895
Appendix 1: Lumber Rafting in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
2. First Mountain Teaching: Joppa, Alabama, 1895-1898
Appendix 2: Letters from Joppa Pupils
3. Teaching Years: Pleasant Hill and Demorest: Grant for Study of Mountain Region, 1898-1908
4. Travel in the Mountains: The Study, 1908-1909
5. Report and First Conference, 1909-1913
6. The Southern Highland Division: Beginnings, 1913-1914
7. The Southern Highland Division's Widening Field, 1914-1915
8. Ballads Added: Part 1: 1915-1916
9. Ballads Added: Part 2: 1916
10. Fifth Conference and Ballads, 1916-1917
11. War Work, 1918
12. The Last Year, 1918-1919
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American Literacy • Appalachian culture • appalachian history • Appalachian language • Appalachian stereotypes • ballad collecting • Biographies • Educational Reform • education in appalachia • Folk Ballads • rural activism • southern highlander and his homeland
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-6856-2 / 0813168562
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-6856-2 / 9780813168562