Research Catalog

Title

Ozarks : an American survival of primitive society / Vance Randolph ; edited by Robert Cochran.

Author

Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980.

Publication

Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors

Cochran, Robert, 1943-

Description

xxiii, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits, music; 21 cm.

Summary

"Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” who first visited the region as a child with his middle-class parents, he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects. And his essentially romantic identification with the Ozarks--encouraged by the editors of the era--was always tempered by his scientific training and his contrarian nature. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph’s first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph’s interests—in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs and play parties, in moonshining—is on view in this book that made his name; forever after he was “Mr. Ozark,” the region’s preeminent expert who would, in collection after collection, enlarge and deepen his debut effort. With a new introduction by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks , an image shaper in its day, a cultural artifact for decades to come, this wonderful book is as entertaining as ever." --Back cover.

Series Statement

Chronicles of the Ozarks

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Chronicles of the Ozarks.

Subject

• Ozarkers
• Folklore > Ozark Mountains
• Folk songs, English > Ozark Mountains
• Folk songs, English
• Folklore
• Manners and customs
• Ozark Mountains
• Missouri > Social life and customs
• Arkansas > Social life and customs
• Ozark Mountains > Songs and music
• Arkansas
• Missouri
• United States > Ozark Mountains

Genre/Form

• Music
• Songs and music

Note

• Maps on lining-papers.
• Includes songs with music.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Old trails and campfires -- The hill-billy at home -- Womenfolk and social life -- The Ozark dialect -- Signs and superstitions -- The passing of the play-party -- Ozark folk-songs -- Ways that are dark -- Shooting for beef -- Jumpers, giggers and noodlers -- Fools' gold -- The coming of the "furriners."

ISBN

• 1682260267
• 9781682260265

OCLC

• 953552708
• SCSB-12728887

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library