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Thread #23230   Message #2382739
Posted By: Janie
07-Jul-08 - 12:30 AM
Thread Name: Appalachian Snake Handler Music
Subject: RE: Appalachian Snake Handler Music
Karen Kramer did an excellent documentary video on the Jolo Snake Handler congregation in 1977.

Also see the novel by Lee Smith, "Saving Grace."

The excellent music is common to many Holiness and Pentecostal churches in the southern Appalachians, and not just within snake handlers.