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title: Ozark Country Folklife in the South Series author: McNeil, W. K. publisher: University Press of Mississippi isbn10 | asin: 0878057293 print isbn13: 9780878057290 ebook isbn13: 9780585211282 language: English Folklore--Ozark Mountains Region, Material culture--Ozark Mountains Region, subject Folk music--Ozark Mountains Region, Ozark Mountains Region--Social life and customs. publication date: 1995 lcc: GR108.3.M35 1995eb ddc: 976.7/1 Folklore--Ozark Mountains Region, Material culture--Ozark Mountains Region, Folk music--Ozark Mountains Region, subject: Folk music--Ozark Mountains Region, Ozark Mountains Region--Social life and customs. Page i Ozark Country Page ii FOLKLIFE IN THE SOUTH SERIES Cajun Country by Barry Jean Ancelet, Jay Edwards, and Glen Pitre Kentucky Bluegrass Country by R. Gerald Alvey Upper Cumberland Country by William Lynwood Montell South Florida Folklife by Tina Bucuvalas, Peggy A. Bulger, and Stetson Kennedy Great Smoky Mountains by Michael Ann Williams Page iii Ozark Country Folklife in the South Series William Lynwood Montell, General Editor W.K. McNeil University Press of Mississippi Jackson Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original hardcopy book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. Copyright © 1995 by the University Press of Mississippi All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America 98 97 96 95 4 3 2 1 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanenceand durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McNeil, W.K. Ozark country / W.K. McNeil p. cm.(Folklife in the South series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87805-728-5 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87805-729-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Ozark Mountains RegionSocial life and customs. I. Title. II. Series. F417.O9M36 1995 976.7' Idc20 95-14859 CIP British Library Cataloging-in-Publication data available Page v To the Memory of Clay Anderson, 19311993 Page vii Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii 1. Historical Overview 1 2. Family Ties 17 3. At Work 51 4. Folk Customs 75 5. Ozark and Appalachian Folk Music 97 6. Games and Entertainment 131 7. Folk Narratives 151 Appendix The Ozark Folk Center 167 Notes 173 Bibliographical Essay 181 Bibliography 185 Index 189 Page ix Preface Folklife, a familiar concept in European scholarship for over a century, is the sum of a community's traditional forms of expression and behavior. It has claimed the attention of American folklorists since the 1950s. Each volume in the Folklife in the South Series focuses on the shared traditions that link people with their past and provide meaning and continuity for them in the present, and sets these traditions in the social contexts in which they flourish. Prepared by recognized scholars in various academic disciplines, these volumes are designed to be read separately. Each contains a vivid description of one region's traditional cultural elementethnic and mainstream, rural and urbanthat, in concert with those of other recognizable southern regions, lend a unique interpretation to the complex social structure of the South. This comprehensive study of the Ozarks is the first such work since Vance Randolph's books in the early 1930s. Utilizing field research he and others have collected during the past two decades, W. K. McNeil goes beyond the survivalist approach of Randolph to show that Ozark folk culture is alive and well and constantly changing. He discusses historical folk culture and compares it to the current cultural traditions within this region, whose geographical boundaries include northern Arkansas, southern Missouri, and parts of Illinois, Kansas, and Oklahoma. WILLIAM LYNWOOD MONTELLl SERIES EDITOR
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