ISBN:
9780813116389
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (178 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Up Cutshin and Down Greasy : Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family
DDC:
398.209769
Keywords:
Couch family
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Folklore ; Kentucky
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Kentucky ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Online-Publikation
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River -- Cutshin and Greasy creeks -- folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century they had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears -- the farming methods, the household arts, and the games, ballads, dances, and tales that were their chief entertainment. In Up Cutshin and Down Greasy, brothers Dave and Jim Couch, born about the turn of the century, recall clearly their childhood days on Sang Branch of Greasy and Clover Fork of Big Leatherwood. Dave, a prof
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 1. JIM COUCH, HIS FAMILY STORY; 2. DAVE COUCH, HIS FAMILY STORY; 3. OTHER COUCHES, THEIR STORIES; 4. JIM AND DAVE, THEIR MOONSHINING; 5. DAVE AND JIM, THEIR FOLKWAYS; 6. THE COUCHES' TALES AND SONGS; THE TWO GALS; JACK AND THE BULL STRAP; THE MAGIC WHITE DEER; POLLY, NANCY, AND MUNCIMEG; THE FOX AND THE CAT; TAILIPOE; BRIDLING THE WITCH; THE ONE-EYED GIANT; ARSHMAN AND THE WATCH; FROG OR MOOSE?; FROGS AND THE RUM; THE MON A-COMING; PICKING MULBERRIES; I'VE GOT THE JOB; SEVEN DEAD INDIANS; OLD INDIAN BINGE
Description / Table of Contents:
NIP, KINK, AND CURLYTHE DEVIL AND THE SCHOOL CHILD; THE BACHELOR BOY; MINES OF COAL CREEK; YOUNG LADY IN THE BLOOM OF YOUTH; FLOYD FRAZIER; SUGAR HILL; APPENDIX; INDEX
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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