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Author Campbell, Olive D. (Olive Dame), 1882-1954, author

Title The life and work of John C. Campbell / Olive Dame Campbell ; edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2017

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Contents Front cover; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Note on Editorial Method; Introduction; 1 Family Background and Early Life, 1868-1895; 2 First Mountain Teaching; 3 Teaching Years; 4 Travel in the Mountains; 5 Report and First Conference, 1909-1913; 6 The Southern Highland Division; 7 The Southern Highland Division's Widening Field, 1914-1915; 8 Ballads Added; 9 Ballads Added Pt 2; 10 Fifth Conference and Ballads, 1916-1917; 11 War Work, 1918; 12 The Last Year, 1918-1919; Notes; Index
Summary John C. Campbell (1867--1919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbell traveled throughout the region with his wife -- noted social reformer and "songcatcher" Olive Dame Campbell -- interviewing and profiling its people. His landmark work, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, yet little has been published about the Campbells and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia. Elizabeth McCutchen Williams has prepared the first critical edition of Olive Dame Campbell's comprehensive overview of her husband's life and work -- a project left unfinished at the time of Olive's death. Never before published, this unique volume draws extensively on diary entries and personal letters to illuminate the significance and lasting impact of John C. Campbell's contributions. The result is a dynamic blend of biography and collected correspondence that presents an insightful portrait of the influential educator and reformer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Campbell, John C. (John Charles), 1867-1919.
SUBJECT Campbell, John C. (John Charles), 1867-1919 fast
Subject Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs
Appalachians (People) -- Social conditions
Mountain life -- Appalachian Region, Southern
Social reformers -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
Educators -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Educators
Appalachians (People) -- Social conditions
Appalachians (People) -- Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Mountain life
Social conditions
Social reformers
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Genre/Form Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, Elizabeth McCutchen, editor
ISBN 9780813168555
0813168554