Appalachian / Regional / Southern Crafts Bibliography
Appalachian / Regional / Southern Crafts Bibliography
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Below are references that—while not specific or limited to KENTUCKY—nonetheless are links to publications of interest in the study of crafts in the Appalachian region and/or in states near Kentucky. Since neither the history nor the published scholarship concerning crafts are constrained by state lines, items included here are of interest and importance in the context of the Kentucky Crafts Encyclopedia.
Abramson, R. and J. Haskell. Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2006.
Alvic, Philis. Weavers of the Southern Highlands. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.)
Arnow, Jan. By Southern Hands: A Celebration of Craft Traditions in the South. Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House, 1987.
Barker, Garry. The Handcraft Revival in Southern Appalachia, 1930-1990. (Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1991).
__________. "The Mountain Crafts: Romancing the Marketplace." Journal of the Appalachian Studies Association 5 (1993): 20-25.
__________. Notes from a native son: Essays on the Appalachian Experience. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press. 1995.
Bibliographies of Craft Books in the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Library. Asheville, NC: Southern Highland Handicraft Guild Library, 1983-1987.
Becker, Jane S. Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998).
Burch, J. R. (2009). The Bibliography of Appalachia: more than 4,700 books, articles, monographs and dissertations, topically arranged and indexed. Jefferson, N.C., McFarland.
Cannon County Folk Artists & Craftsmen: A Directory. (Woodbury, Tennessee: Rural Area Development Committee of Cannon County, 1987).
Cogswell, Robert. “Cannon County Basketry: The Sweezy Photographs,” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 66, no. 1/2 (2010): 3-56.
__________. “Cannon County Basketry: Broader Documentation,” Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin 68, no. 1/2 (2012): 3-74.
__________. A Selected Bibliography of Tennessee Folk Arts. Tennessee Arts Commission, 1986.
__________. "Cultural Intervention in Southern Appalachia: Agents and Agendas," Southern Folklore 49 (1992): 196-220. Previously published in Peggy A. Bulger, ed., Promoting Southern Cultural Heritage: A Conference on Impact. Proceedings. (Atlanta: Southern Arts Federation, 1991), pp. 13-27.
Eaton, Allen H. (1937/1973). The Handicrafts of the Southern Highlands. Russell Sage Foundation.
Ennis, Lynn Jones. Penland and the ‘Revival’ of Craft ‘Traditions’: A Study of The Making of American Identities. Union Institute, 1995. 538-553.
Farr, Sydney Saylor. Appalachian Women, an Annotated Bibliography. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.
Fisher, Steve. A Selected Bibliography of Unpublished Theses and Dissertations. [S.I.: s.n., 1977] ASU Appalachian Collection.
Johnson, Bruce (2012). Arts & Crafts Shopmarks. Fletcher, NC: Knock On Wood Publications.
Lawler, C. G. (1939). Crafts Training Conference, Appalachian State Teachers College, Boone, North Carolina, Feb. 6-18, 1939. Raleigh, N.C., Works Progress Administration, Division of Recreation.
Stone, May and Katherine Pettit. The Quare Women's Journals: May Stone and Katherine Pettit's Summers in the Kentucky Mountains and the Founding of the Hindman Settlement School. Edited by Jess Stoddart. Ashland, KY: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1997.
Venable, S. Mountain hands: a portrait of Southern Appalachia. Knoxville, University of Tennessee Press, 2000.
Wilson, Kathleen Curtis. Textile Art from Southern Appalachia, the quiet work of women. Johnson City, TN: The Overmountain Press, 2001.
Whisnant, David E. All That is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
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