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Selected
Bibliography
KET Resources
KET offers a variety of videotapes
focusing on folklife and culture,
including a companion instructional
series, Telling Tales, featuring storytellers
performing before a live
audience of young people. Contact
KET for a complete list of programs
and resources (600 Cooper Dr.,
Lexington, KY 40502-2296).
Appalachian Folk Culture
Suggestions provided by Mike Seeger
There is no up-to-date survey text,
LP recording, or film at any level
dealing with the music and folk culture
of the people of Appalachia. Listed
below are several texts, films, and
records that can be helpful, though. All
records listed here come with good
annotation.
Recordings
Old Mother Hippletoe: Rural and
Urban Children’s Songs, New
World Records 291
This LP is probably the only
traditional music survey of its kind. It
features an incredible range of singing
and playing by children and adults.
Songs range from “Robin Hood and the
Peddler” to “Ronald MacDonald.” It is
mostly for younger children.
American Folksongs for Children, sung
by Mike and Peggy Seeger, Rounder
8001-3
This is the companion recording to
the book by the same name listed
below. Songs are sung by two of
author-composer Ruth Crawford
Seeger’s children, who were raised on
the songs that became the book. Mostly
for younger children.
The Hammons Family: A Study of a
West Virginia Family’s Traditions,
Carl Fleischauer and Alan Jabbour,
Archive of Folk Song, Library of
Congress, AFS L65-66
Includes a variety of traditional
unaccompanied songs, tunes on banjo
and fiddle, stories, and photographs.
This outstanding text gives extensive
history and a feel for this musical
family and the region in which they
live. If you can obtain only one of these
items, this one will probably give you
the best feel for the Appalachian
region. It has a good bibliography and
partial discography. Available from
Recorded Sound Section, Music
Division, Library of Congress, Washington,
DC 20540 (Note: The Library
of Congress has many more recordings
of traditional music in its archives, all
very good. You can request a catalog.)
Music from the Hills of Caldwell
County (North Carolina), Physical
Records 12-001
This is a documentary of rural black
music from northern North Carolina,
mostly of 20th-century instrumental
styles, with limited annotation.
Oh, My Little Darling: Folk Song
Types, New World Records 245
The song tradition, from unaccompanied
and early religious singing to early
“hillbilly” music, is presented on this
LP. It includes comprehensive notes
with suggestions for further reading
and listening.
Books
American Folk Songs for Children,
Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday,
1948
The pioneer book of songs for young
children by composer Ruth Crawford
Seeger, with piano arrangements, an
essay on music education philosophy,
and many suggestions for using these
traditional songs.
Southern Music/American Music, Bill
Malone, The University Press of
Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506,
1979
Noted country music historian
Malone devotes the first several
chapters to pre-commercial Anglo and
African-American traditional music.
68 Old Music for New Ears Teacher’s Guide