Mountain ballads have been a part of American mountain culture since the earliest English and Scottish settlers moved there more than 200 years... From Knee-To-Knee To CD: The Evolution Of Oral ...

More than any other art form, old songs - really old songs - offer a visceral link to the people of the past. You can read Dickens and Melville, study Old Master paintings, or tune in your classical ...

1. Translated from the Originals, by R. C. ALEXANDER PRIOR, M. D. London: Williams & Norgate. Leipzig: R. Hartmann. 1860. 3 vols. pp. lx., 400, 468, 500. 2. By ROBERT ...

Editor’s note: In anticipation of the National Folk Festival July 9-11 in Uptown Butte, The Montana Standard will profile selected musicians who are coming to town to perform. The profiles will run ...

My 5-year-old nephew, Ezra, sits between his mother and grandmother on a porch-swing covered in old quilts. An expansive view of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Madison County, N.C., spreads out before ...

Mountain ballads have been a part of American mountain culture since the earliest English and Scottish settlers moved there more than 200 years... My 5-year-old nephew, Ezra, sits between his mother ...