A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To Some Bad End: The Singing Traditions Of Three Western North Carolina Women - Hazel Rhymer, Pearl Hicks, And Zora Walker
- ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Susan Graham Pepper (Creator)
- Institution
- Appalachian State University (ASU )
- Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
- Advisor
- Patricia Beaver
Abstract: This thesis is a synthesis of fieldwork, research, and analysis of the music-making traditions among three uniquely talented elderly women singers: Hazel Rhymer, Pearl Hicks, and Zora Walker, who were all born in the 1920s and grew up and spent the majority of their lives in western North Carolina.
A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To Some Bad End: The Singing Traditions Of Three Western North Carolina Women - Hazel Rhymer, Pearl Hicks, And Zora Walker
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- Publication
- Thesis
- Pepper, S. (2008). A Whistling Girl And A Crowing Hen Always Come To Some Bad End: The Singing Traditions Of Three Western North Carolina Women - Hazel Rhymer, Pearl Hicks, And Zora Walker. Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
- Language: English
- Date: 2008
- Keywords
- singing tradition, Appalachia, western North Carolina, Oral tradition(s), North Carolina history, Appalachian Studies, Hazel Rhymer, Pearl Hicks, Zora Walker