Works cited, bibliography, discography, acknowledgements

Works Cited

Anderson, Christa Smith. “A First Lady in a False Kingdom: a curious convergence on White Top Mountain.” Oxford-American  67 (Winter 2009)

Becker, Jane. Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940. Chapel Hill: University of NC Press, 1998: 37

"Buchanan, Annabel Morris," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, eds. Sara B. Bearss, John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway. Richmond, VA.: The Library of Virginia (2001): 363-365 (22 October 1888-6 January, 1983)

Cantwell, Robert. “Feasts of Unnaming: folk festivals and the representation of folklife,” Online. http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/cantwell.html (accessed: 1/18/2021).

Cohen, Ronald. A History of Folk Music Festivals in the U.S.: Feasts of Musical Celebration. American Folk Music and Musicians Series (Book 11). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2008.

Crawford, Bruce. “Folk Music at White Top,” New Republic, 76 no. 978 (30 Aug., 1933): 74-75.

Lewis, Helen Matthews and Rich Kirby. “All That is Native and Still Undefined: a response to David Whisnant.” In Appalachia Inside Out / editors, Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, Jim Wayne Miller ; associate editors, Laura L. Higgs ... [et al.], v. 2, Culture and Custom. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1995

Malone, Bill C. and David Stricklin, Southern Music / American Music. Lexington, KY: University of Lexington Press, c. 1979; revised and expanded, 2003.

Bill C. Malone. “Music.” In High Mountains Rising: Appalachia in time and place, edited by Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2004.

“Real Southerner and the White Top Folk Festival,” The Southern Literary Messenger, 1 No. 6 (June, 1939): 404-406

Rothery,Agnes. “Music in the Air.” In Virginia, The New Dominion. New York, London: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1940.

Southern Folk Ballads, Volume II: Ballads—Stories in Song—of Murderers, of Mexican-Americans, of Cajuns, of the Supernatural, of Humor, and of Child-Heroes, American Folklore Series, M.K. McNeil, General Editor. Little Rock: August House Publishers (1988)

Sturgill, Mark. “First Lady Visits White Top.” New River Notes. Online. http://www.newrivernotes.com/grayson_history_1933_whitetop_1stlady.htm. Accessed: 1/18/2021.

Troubetzkoy, Ulrich. “Music on the Mountain.” Virginia Cavalcade, 11, No. 1 (Summer, 1961): 4-11.

Whisnant, David E. All that is native & fine : the politics of culture in an American region. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1983

___“The White Top Festival: What We (Have Not) Learned.” Presented at the Virginia Highlands Festival, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, August 6, 1998. Online http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fishlm/articles/whitetop.htm.  Accessed 1/18/2021.

___“White Top Folk Festival.” Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Charles Reagan Wilson & William Ferris, coeditors ; Ann J. Abadie & Mary L. Hart, associate editors. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1989: 1089

“White Top To Be Fiddlers’ Mecca: Old time musicians prepare to enter contests—new features announced,” Abingdon Journal-Virginian, July 6,1933 (Reprinted in the Abingdon Virginian, August, 1998).

Williams, Michael Anne. “Festivals, Folk.” Encyclopedia of Appalachia, Rudy Abramson and Jean Haskell, eds. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press c. 2006: 861.

Wolz, Lyn, "Annabel Morris Buchanan: Folk Song Collector," Ferrum Review, Number 5 (Fall, 1982): 27-34

Discography

"White Top Festival Recordings August 16-17, 1935" Recorded by John and Alan Lomaxon behalf of the Library of Congress, American Folklife Center:
Parts of five discs, numbered AFS 550-551, 649b1,651a, and 652, Collection: AFC 1935/002 http://lccn.loc.gov/2008700300
Recordings by Richard Chase (1939):
Discs AFS 3426-3432,Collection: AFC 1939/018
http://lccn.loc.gov/200965545656
Search AFS numbers using online catalog: http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/afccards/afccards-home.html

Dedicated to the memory of Annabel Morris Buchanan—real American—real Southerner—progressive Southern woman (and fellow Texan)

Note: Published as: The White Top Folk Festival: Too Traditional or not Traditional Enough? Historical Society of Washington County, VA. Bulletin, Series II, No. 53, 2016, by William Stein: White Top Folk Festival 1931-1939 

Acknowledgement 

Thanks to James Hagy and Susan Brown for editorial assistance and to David Winship for sharing his personal notes and collection of White Top memorabilia.