Saga Coe Ridge: Study Oral History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780870493157)

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.

Author: William Lynwood Montell
ISBN-10: 0870493159
ISBN-13: 9780870493157
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
Language: English
Published: 07/31/1981
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 7.90w x 0.70d

About the Author

William Lynwood Montell is emeritus professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University. A distinguished interpreter of the folk customs in the Upper Cumberland, his many 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.