Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813123097 ISBN 13: 9780813123097

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2004

Synopsis

Tennessee History Book Award Finalist The Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, has a far richer history and culture than has been documented. The contributors to Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland discuss an extensive array of subjects, including popular music, movies, architecture, folklore, religion, and literature. Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars such as Lynwood Montell, Charles Wolfe, Allison Ensor, and Jeannette Keith uncover fascinating stories and personalities as they explore topics including wartime hero Alvin C. York, Socialist Party Tennessee gubernatorial candidate Kate Brockford Stockton, and even a thriving nudist colony, the Timberline Lodge.

About this title

About the Author

Michael E. Birdwell, assistant professor of history at Tennessee Technological University, is the author of Celluloid Soldiers: Warner Bros. s Campaign Against Nazism. W. Calvin Dickinson, professor of history at Tennessee Technological University, is the author of A Bibliography of Tennessee History, 1973 1996.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813123097
• ISBN 13: 9780813123097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Birdwell Michael E., Dickinson W. Calvin