The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History - Softcover

Montell, William Lynwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870493159 ISBN 13: 9780870493157

Publisher: University of Tennessee Press, 1981

Synopsis

Few black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during the ninety years of its existence.

". . . a new and long needed departure in American historiography. . . . This is in every way an impressive book.  It contains detailed accounts of the informants, tables of folklore motifs, genealogical charts, a prologue and epilogue explaining authoritatively the hypotheses of oral traditional history, and handsome photographs of the Coe Ridge area."
--Richard M. Dorson, Journal of American History.  

"Lynwood Montell has written an invaluable book for all those interested in the use of oral tradition as a tool in the reconstruction of history. . . . This is a book worthy of being on any folklorist's shelf."
--Richaed A. Reuss, Journal of American Folklore.

About this title

About the Author

William Lynwood Montell (1931-2023) was professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University. A distinguished interpreter of the folk customs in the Upper Cumberland, his twenty-eight books include Ghosts Along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills; A Study in Oral History; and Don't Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberland. He was inducted into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and received the Kentucky Governor's Arts Award in Folk Heritage.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870493159
• ISBN 13: 9780870493157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256