Comments on: Appalachian Tales

Appalachian Tales

Miko — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:07:15 -0800

The Digital Library of Appalachia presents an online collection of music files, images, literature, and scanned documents supplied by twelve regional college libraries.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:24:15 -0800

Whoah. Bookmarked. Awesome.

By: timsteil

timsteil — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:51:11 -0800

Holy Crap: There goes the rest of my afternoon. Excellent resource Miko.

By: pablocham

pablocham — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:00:17 -0800

that is incredible. Thank you!

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:19:05 -0800

Very neat!

By: mrs.pants

mrs.pants — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:34:09 -0800

Holy Crow! Thanks!

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:06:55 -0800

Outstanding. Thank you Miko. CONTENTdm construct the best digital repositories. Is this brand new? As a digilibrary junkie I'm certain I've never seen this and I make it a point to hang out at Cdm every month or so. In fact I've never seen any of the contributing libraries. So I'm happy. Cheers.

By: bryghtrose

bryghtrose — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:07:07 -0800

Wow... thanks for posting this!

By: safetyfork

safetyfork — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:09:40 -0800

Very nice, thanks!

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:10:39 -0800

This made my day. Thank you.

By: Miko

Miko — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:34:07 -0800

Glad y'all like. I, too, can happily waste a day paging through online digital collections. They're definitely one of the best uses of internet technology ever imagined. Peacay, I honestly don't know how long it's been online. I came across it the back way today while researching a song, or I wouldn't have found it!

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:42:24 -0800

woot!

By: marxchivist

marxchivist — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:07:59 -0800

Yay! Great waste of time!

By: snsranch

snsranch — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:30:04 -0800

I've been scouring the interweb for old-timey music/bluegrass years. You've just handed me the keys to the gold mine! Thank you.

By: Atreides

Atreides — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:36:48 -0800

Thanks for the link! I was surprised by the contributing libraries, myself. I recognized only a few of them, where as I was expecting Appalachian State University or the U of Kentucky or West Virginia or Virginia Tech. Speaking of which, many of those schools do have some online offerings through their libraries for some of the same subject areas. For those who want something to hold in their hands, the University of Tennessee Press has released The Encyclopedia of Appalachia.

By: LarryC

LarryC — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:32:09 -0800

Awesome post, this is exactly the kind of post I joined Metafilter for. (Came for the links, stayed for the snark.)

By: maggieb

maggieb — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:08:04 -0800

Another Appalachia archive here.

By: Miko

Miko — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:55:47 -0800

snsranch, you probably already know this, but there's a lot of old-time and related music available on the Library of Congress' American Memory site. Here's the reference page for culture and folklife, which contains some finding aids. Southern Mosaic and the Henry Reed collection are particularly good for what you're looking for, but there are lots of other great collections you can listen to online. Thanks, Maggieb, another great link!