Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky

Subject: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: GUEST,sad
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:04 AM

i may have got the title wrong, sorry.

does anyone know about this book please?

thank you

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: IanC
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:11 AM

sad

Do you have any other information - author, date, publisher ???

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: GUEST,sad
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:19 AM

if I can find it amongt the rubble in my flat - all the above and more..

Right now, no...

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:22 AM

Jean Thomas (1939) Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky New York: H. Holt.

Hope that helps,

Brian

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: IanC
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 11:45 AM

Well, I've found a brief description of the book

Thomas, Jean "Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky" New York: Henry Holt, 1939. A narrative and collection of folk songs from the Cumberlands, collected by Jean Thomas, herself from Kentucky. Some tunes collected from females.

There's also some biographical information on Jean Thomas here and a whole load of source material (some of which she undoubtedly used in the production of her book) catalogued here in the Dwight Anderson Memorial Music Library.

Apart from that, I know nothing!

Cheers!
Ian

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 12:03 PM

Clearly you found out more than I did Ian. Jean Thomas sounds like an interesting person, I wonder if anyone else knows anymore about her.

Sad, what's your interest in the book?

Brian

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: Brian Hoskin
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 12:21 PM

I've looked around a bit more now and found quite a lot about Jean Thomas. See

here

here

here and

here

Brian

Subject: RE: Book: Ballad Making in Kentucky
From: GUEST,sad
Date: 06 Aug 01 - 02:27 PM

Many thanks, people - appreciated

My interest in the book - I got a copy from a 'flea market' for a few pence - curious to know if it was a 'classic' or an 'unknown' Seems quite interesting to me

sad