Upper Cumberland Country
Title | Upper Cumberland Country PDF eBook |
Author | William Lynwood Montell |
Publisher | Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) |
ISBN | 9781617035319 |
Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Title | Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Birdwell |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 2004-12-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780813123097 |
Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
Lend an Ear
Title | Lend an Ear PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Dickinson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Country People
Title | Country People PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Keith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 658 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Cumberland River Valley (Ky. and Tenn.) |
ISBN |
Country People in the New South
Title | Country People in the New South PDF eBook |
Author | Jeanette Keith |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807862401 |
Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of the family's sustenance. But the arrival of the railroad in 1890 transformed the local economy. Farmers battled town dwellers for control of community institutions, while Progressives called for cultural, political, and economic modernization. Keith demonstrates how these conflicts affected the region's mobilization for World War I, and she argues that by the 1920s shifting gender roles and employment patterns threatened traditionalists' cultural hegemony. According to Keith, religion played a major role in the adjustment to modernity, and local people united to support the 'Monkey Law' as a way of confirming their traditional religious values.
Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland
Title | Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland PDF eBook |
Author | William Lynwood Montell |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781572335455 |
Essays by various authors detailing the richness of music that has emanated from Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky since the 1700's.
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek
Title | Don't Go Up Kettle Creek PDF eBook |
Author | William Lynwood Montell |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781572330849 |
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and a half of life in the Upper Cumberland. Montell organized his material according to the topics that dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the traditional ways of people. First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area that have occured since the book's initial appearance. The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland and The Saga of Coe Ridge.