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American literary regionalism, often used interchangeably with the term "local color", is a style or genre of writing in the United States that gained popularity in the mid-to-late 19th century and early 20th century.
The American Folkways is a 28-volume series of books, initiated and principally edited by Erskine Caldwell, and published by Duell, Sloan and Pearce from 1941 to 1955. [1] Each book focused on a different region, or "folkway", of the United States, including documentary essays and folklore from that region. [ 2 ]
In today's puzzle, there are seven theme words to find (including the spangram). Hint: The first one can be found in the top-half of the board. Here are the first two letters for each word: DR. IN ...
Moses Asch (December 2, 1905 – October 19, 1986) was an American recording engineer and record executive. He founded Asch Records, which then changed its name to Folkways Records when the label transitioned from 78 RPM recordings to LP records.
Folkways: The Original Vision, a 1989 album produced by Smithsonian Folkways documenting the origins of Folkways Records; Folkways: The Original Vision (Woody and LeadBelly), a 2005 expanded version of the 1989 album; Folkways: a study of the sociological importance of usages, manners, customs, mores, and morals, a 1906 book by William Graham ...
Seeger selected the eleven songs for the album from an anthology of folk songs for children that had been published by his stepmother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, in her 1948 book titled American Folk Songs For Children, ISBN 0-385-15788-6, a book of musical notations and notated guides.
George S. Davis, a folk singer and songwriter who had been a Kentucky coal miner, claimed on a 1966 recording for Folkways Records to have written the song as "Nine-to-ten tons" in the 1930s; [5] he also at different times claimed to have written the song as "Twenty-One Tons". There is no supporting evidence for Davis's claim.
"Dean used to help me wrap all the gifts, but obviously, now I'm a single mom, separate households," Spelling says of her ex-husband Dean McDermott, with whom she shares her five kids — Liam, 17 ...