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Still from The High Lonesome Sound

John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Scott Matthews, Hollins University


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Print Materials:
Agee, Joel. In the House of My Fear: A Memoir. Berkeley: Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004.

Anthony, Ted. Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song. New York: Simon and Shuster, 2007.

Batteau, Allen. The Invention of Appalachia. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1990.

Billings, Dwight, Gurney Norman, and Katherine Ledford, eds. Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes. Lexington: Unversity Press of Kentucky, 2000.

Cantwell, Robert S. When We Were Good: The Folk Revival. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Cohen, John. There Is No Eye: John Cohen Photographs. Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2000.

Cohen, John, Mike Seeger, & Hally Wood. The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book. New York: Oak Publications, 1964.

Cohen, Ronald D. Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940–1970. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 2002.

Dorgan, Howard. The Old Regular Baptists of Central Appalachia: Brothers and Sisters in Hope. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Filene, Benjamin. Romancing the Folk: Public Memory and American Roots Music. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Goldsmith, Peter D. Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Gura, Philip F. "Southern Roots and Branches: Forty Years of the New Lost City Ramblers." Southern Cultures 6.4 (2000): 58-81.

Harkins, Anthony. Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Jones, Loyal. Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999.

Malone, Bill C. Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Michaels, Mike. "Stranger in a Strange Land." No Depression 41 (September-October 2002): 101 - 107.

McNeil, W.K., ed. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995).

Rosenberg, Neil, ed. Transforming Tradition: Folk Music Revivals Examined. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Sherman, Sharon R. Documenting Ourselves: Film, Video, and Culture. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Straw, Richard A. & H. Tyler Blethen, eds. High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in Time and Place. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004.

Tullos, Allen, ed. Long Journey Home: Folklife in the South. Chapel Hill: Southern Exposure, 1977.

Walls, David S. & John B. Stephenson, eds. Appalachia in the Sixties: Decade of Reawakening. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972.

Wolfe, Charles K. Kentucky Country: Folk and Country Music of Kentucky. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.

Films:
Aginsky, Yasha and Carrie Aginsky. Homemade American Music, 1980.
http://www.folkstreams.net/pub/FilmPage.php?title=153

Antonioni, Michelangelo. Zabriskie Point, 1970.

Cohen, John. The High Lonesome Sound, 1963.

___________________. The End of an Old Song, 1973.

___________________. Musical Holdouts, 1976.

Davenport, Tom and Barry Dornfeld. Remembering the High Lonesome, 2003.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,42

Frank, Robert. Pull My Daisy, 1959.

King, Martha and Rob Roberts. Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound, 2005.
http://www.folkstreams.net/film,120

Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest: Johnny Cash and Roscoe Holcombe. Shanachie DVD, 2005.

Music:
Banjo Bill Cornett. The Lost Recordings. Field Recorders' Collective, 2005.

Holcomb, Roscoe. The High Lonesome Sound. CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 1998.

_____________. The High Lonesome Sound. LP. Bo' Weavil Recordings, 2006.

_____________. An Untamed Sense of Control. CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 2003. Lee Sexton & Family. s/t. Field Recorders' Collective, 2006.

New Lost City Ramblers. The Early Years (1958–1962). CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 1991.

___________________. Vol. 2: 1963 – 1973 – Out Standing in Their Field. CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 1993.

___________________. Old-Time Music. Passport, 1994.

Sexton, Lee. Whoa Mule. CD. June Appal Recordings.

Songs of the Old Regular Baptists: Lined-Out Hymnody from Southeastern Kentucky. Smithsonian Folkways, 1997.

__________________________: Vol. 2. Smithsonian Folkways, 2003.

Various Artists. American Folk and Country Music Festival. 2CD. Bear Family, 2007.

____________. Backroads to Cold Mountain. CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 2004.

____________. Kentucky Mountain Music. 7 CD Box Set. Yazoo, 2003.

____________. Kentucky Old-Time Banjo. CD. Rounder, 1999.

____________. Mountain Music of Kentucky. 2CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 1996.

____________. Original Soundtrack: Zabriskie Point. CD. Rhino, 1997.

____________. There Is No Eye: Music for Photographs – Recordings of Musicians Photographed by John Cohen. CD. Smithsonian Folkways, 2001.

Links:
Digital Library of Appalachia
http://www.aca-dla.org/

Smithsonian Folkways
http://www.folkways.si.edu/

John Cohen
http://www.johncohenworks.com/home.html

powerHouse books
http://www.powerhousebooks.com/

Folkstreams
http://www.folkstreams.net/


About the Author:
Scott Matthews is an Assistant Professor of History at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. He completed his dissertation, Up Against the World Like It Is': Documentary Expression in the South, 1925 - 1965, in May 2008 at the University of Virginia. Currently, Matthews is working on an essay about SNCC photography during the civil rights movement, and he is planning a larger Roscoe Halcomb project that relates Halcomb's life to larger social, economic, and cultural changes affecting Appalachia and urban/suburban America.


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Published: 6 August 2008

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