Ballad hunting with Max Hunter : stories of an Ozark folksong collector / Sarah Jane Nelson ; foreword by Robert Cochran.

"A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused on preserving th...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Music in American life.
Main Author: Nelson, Sarah Jane, 1959- (Author)
Other Authors: Cochran, Robert, 1943- (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: Champaign, IL : University of Illinois Press, [2023]
Series:Music in American life.
Subjects:
Hunter, Max.
Folklorists > Ozark Mountains > 20th century > Biography.
Ballads, English > Ozark Mountains > History and criticism.
Folk songs, English > Ozark Mountains > History and criticism.
Ethnomusicology > Ozark Mountains.
Ozark Mountains > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Ballads, English.
Ethnomusicology.
Folk songs, English.
Folklorists.
Manners and customs.
United States > Ozark Mountains.
1900-1999
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xxiii, 234 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

System Under Maintenance

Our Library Management System is currently under maintenance.

Holdings and item availability information is currently unavailable. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause and contact us for further assistance:

Please contact Reference and Discovery Services via their Contact Form or call them directly at: 517-353-8700 for assistance.