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English language -- Dialects -- Ozark Mountains

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Vance Randolph Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MC 920
Scope and Content Note

Manuscripts by Vance Randolph of I Have Not Forgotten (Stories from the Ozarks), n.d.; Ozark Speech (two volumes) in collaboration with George P. Wilson, 1951; and Pissing In the Snow, 1954.

Dates: 1951, 1954, n.d.

Roy Edwin Thomas Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1474
Scope and Content Note The collection consists primarily of Roy Edwin Thomas' oral history interview projects, writings, and research materials. Between 1970 and 1994, Thomas conducted more than a thousand oral history interviews, primarily with "old-timers" (those born circa 1870-1910) across Arkansas, the Ozarks, and Appalachia. Notably among these interviewees is musician Jimmy Driftwood. The collection includes audiocassette tapes with Thomas' recordings of these interviews, as well as Thomas' transcriptions,...
Dates: 1910-1999; Majority of material found within 1970-1999