The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in America. This book is a comprehensive traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. The book leads readers to more than 160 venues and events filled with bluegrass and string band music, ballad singing, fiddling, shape-note singing, gospel music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance.
Vivid descriptions bring the mountain music scene to life in all its diversity....
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated as nowhere else in ...
Alicia J. Rouverol Cedric N. Chatterley Stephen A. Cole
Most studies of deindustrialization in the United States emphasize the economic impact of industrial decline; few consider the social, human costs. ""I Was Content and Not Content""" The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry "is a firsthand account of a plant closure, heavily illustrated through photographs and told through edited oral history interviews. It tells the story of Linda Lord, a veteran of Penobscot Poultry Company in Belfast, Maine, and her experience when the plantMaine s last poultry-processing plant closed its doors in 1988, costing over four hundred...
Most studies of deindustrialization in the United States emphasize the economic impact of industrial decline; few consider the social, human costs....
