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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787214303321

Autore

Smith Betty N.

Titolo

Jane Hicks Gentry : a singer among singers / / Betty N. Smith ; with a foreword by Cecelia Conway

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

0-8131-3138-3

0-8131-4835-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

782.42162/13/0092

Soggetti

Folk singers - Appalachian Region, Southern

Folk music - Appalachian Region, Southern

Folk songs, English - Appalachian Region, Southern

Jack tales - Appalachian Region, Southern

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I: Meet Jane Hicks Gentry; 1. An Introduction; 2. The Hickses and the Harmons; 3. From Watauga to Madison; 4. Plantin' and Hoein' on Meadow Fork; 5. Moving to Town; 6. The Writer Meets the Storyteller; 7. Old Counce, Jane, and the Jack Tales; 8. Balladry; 9. The Songs She Sang; 10. Riddles and Rhymes; 11. Time Passes; 12. Epilogue; Part II: Jane Hicks Gentry's Jack Tales; Photo Section; Part III: Jane Hicks Gentry's Songs; A note on the Song Transcriptions John Forbes; Appendixes

Appendixe A: Song Listings in the Sharp and Bronson CollectionsAppendixe B: Discography of Maud Gentry Long; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

""Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this



vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the ""Jack"" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp