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Upper Cumberland Country (Folklife in the South Series)

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Tucked between Appalachia and the Deep South, the Upper Cumberland region straddles the Kentucky-Tennessee line along the banks of the Cumberland River. Here, dating from the days of the nation’s earliest history, is one among The us’s richest repositories of folklife. Moderately than revealing an artifact, alternatively, this comprehensive study of the Upper Cumberland reveals a living tradition whose roots previously continue to nourish the present.

Documented here in descriptive text, photographs, and interviews are varieties of folk cultural expression in music, architecture, crafts, schools, religious life, folk medical practices, and customs surrounding birth, puberty, marriage, and death. Upper Cumberland Country explores the spectrum of folklore from the previous day and as of late–from pioneer life and early folk architecture to teens “cruising” and women deer hunters. In a region filled with relics, brand new voices from the Upper Cumberland speak in an instant of the living traditions that give the region its unique character. Though rooted in pioneer heritage, the folklife here springs into the present with resonant meanings for latest times.

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