Appalachian Women and Traditional Music

Articles J - M

Women of Old-Time, Bluegrass, and Folk

"Jean Ritchie's Junaluska Keynote: Now is the Cool of the Day". Mountain Life and Work 46/5 (1970): 3-8

Jackson, Molly. " I Am From Kentucky Born." Pamphlet reproduced from the Labour Defender,
The National Miners Union, Harlan and Bell Kentucky, 1931-2. Huntington, WV:
Appalachian Movement Press, June 1972.

Jones, Loyal. Jean Ritchie: Twenty-Five Years After." Appalachian Journal VIII(1981): 224-229.

A review of the signifigance of Ritchie's Singing Family of the Cumberlands and her latest release. Includes bibliography and discography.

Kahn, Ed. "Tapescript: Interview with Charlie, Bubb, and Lucille Pickard." JEMF Newsletter,
vol.4, pt.2, no.12, December 1968.

Laur, Katie. "Voices From the Mountains." Blair and Ketchum's Country Journal 12
(May 1985): 84-87.

Interview with Hazel Dickens.

Ledford, Lily May. "Lily May Ledford: Autobiography." Seattle Folklore Society Journal 8
(March 1977): 3-11.
Part Two Journal 9 (December 1977): 17-24.
Part Three Journal 9 (March 1978): 2-15.

Len, Stanley. "Custom Made Woman Blues." Southern Exposure 4 (Winter 1977): 92-93.

Interviews with Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens, the folk duo.

"Lily May Ledford: 1917-1985." Bluegrass Unlimited, September 1985.

Linn, Karen. "An Interview with Mrs. Bertie Dickens." NC Folklore Journal 34
(Spring 1987): 61-65.

Interview with old-time banjo player, Mrs. Dickens of Ennice, NC.

Lomax, Alan. "Aunt Molly Jackson: An Appreciation." Kentucky Folklore Record
7.4, October-December 1961: 131-32.

An obituary for the activist and folksinger.

Ludden, Keith J. "'If It's on the Radio, Why Bother': A Study of Two Southeast Barren County,
Kentucky Ballad Singers." Kentucky Folklore Record 24 (1978): 54-60.

Menconi, David. "On Stage, Page, She Fights to Keep Old-Time Music Young."
Bluegrass Unlimited, March 1992.

Article about Alice Gerrard, publisher of the Old Time Herald and famed bluegrass musician.

Miller, Terry E. "Old Time Shape Note..." Southern Quarterly 20 (Fall 1981): 35-45.

Women of Old-Time Country, and Country

Jensen, Joli. "Patsy Cline's Recording Career: The Search for a Sound."
Journal of Country Music, vol.9, no.2, 1982: 34-46.

Article on the evolution on Cline's sound.

Ledford, Lily May. "The Role of Women in Country Music." Sing Out!
25, no.2 (1976): 4-5.

Ledford speaks about the role of women in country. Ledford was a member of the Coon Creek Girls of Renfro Valley Barn Dance fame.

Lightfoot, William E. "Belle of the Barn Dance: Reminiscing with Lulu Belle Wiseman Stamey."
Journal of Country Music 12, no. 1 (1987): 2-15.

Article about Lulu Belle.

Lueck, Therese L. "One Voice: The Legacy of Women Singers in Popular Music".
America's Musical Pulse: Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.

Lundy, Karen Saucier, "Women in Country Music".America's Musical Pulse:
Popular Music in Twentieth-Century Society.
Westport, CT: Praeger, 1992.

Michaels, Marguerite. "I'm Not Going, I'm Just Growing." Parade, November 2, 1980.

Moynihan, Maura, and Andy Warhol. "Dolly Parton." Interview, July 1985.

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