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.

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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 Unpublished Master’s Thesis.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

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