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