Add to ORKGThis paper draws its theoretical foundations from an ongoing line of philosophical and post-Cartesian phenomenological research (Merleau-Ponty; Butler; Noë) focused on the body as a means of knowing and being in the world. The documentation of “body schema” is present throughout Appalachian archives, whether formal, institutional, performed, or lived. From dance-related sources and oral histories to more complex references in song texts and literature, we have access to multifaceted, yet often ignored, descriptions of physicality in Appalachia. The primary question is: what do Appalachian bodies, movement, and gesture reveal about being of Appalachia? This project, initially supported by the Appalachian Sound Archives Fellowship at Berea Co...
Since its inception in the 1970s, Appalachian Studies scholars and activists have worked to mediate,...
The interrelated questions of “where is Appalachia” and “who is Appalachian” necessarily evade clear...
Cincinnati, Ohio is not a place typically included in public discourse on Appalachia because it does...
Appalachian history is one that is both exoticized and alienated in the American imagination. People...
Through the use of a multi-sited ethnography which concentrates on participant observation and is su...
This paper develops a geography of voice in order to address the ways in which cultures, regions and...
Material culture is an understudied aspect of social life in Appalachian Studies, the multi- discipl...
Using personal poetry, written while traveling back and forth between three continents, and my own a...
If, as Henry Shapiro argues, Appalachia truly is a construct, “a strange land inhabited by a peculia...
Appalachia is one of the most misunderstood and mythologized regions of the United States. As John C...
While many urbanites today would consider square dancing old-fashioned, or uncool, large numbers of ...
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the expl...
Appalachia is often envisioned as what cultural theorist Evan Watkins calls a “throwaway” or “relic ...
Some scholars have long argued over whether Appalachia was a real place or merely an imagined cons...
Connections between disability and Appalachia are perhaps most commonly observed through the prism o...
Since its inception in the 1970s, Appalachian Studies scholars and activists have worked to mediate,...
The interrelated questions of “where is Appalachia” and “who is Appalachian” necessarily evade clear...
Cincinnati, Ohio is not a place typically included in public discourse on Appalachia because it does...
Appalachian history is one that is both exoticized and alienated in the American imagination. People...
Through the use of a multi-sited ethnography which concentrates on participant observation and is su...
This paper develops a geography of voice in order to address the ways in which cultures, regions and...
Material culture is an understudied aspect of social life in Appalachian Studies, the multi- discipl...
Using personal poetry, written while traveling back and forth between three continents, and my own a...
If, as Henry Shapiro argues, Appalachia truly is a construct, “a strange land inhabited by a peculia...
Appalachia is one of the most misunderstood and mythologized regions of the United States. As John C...
While many urbanites today would consider square dancing old-fashioned, or uncool, large numbers of ...
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the expl...
Appalachia is often envisioned as what cultural theorist Evan Watkins calls a “throwaway” or “relic ...
Some scholars have long argued over whether Appalachia was a real place or merely an imagined cons...
Connections between disability and Appalachia are perhaps most commonly observed through the prism o...
Since its inception in the 1970s, Appalachian Studies scholars and activists have worked to mediate,...
The interrelated questions of “where is Appalachia” and “who is Appalachian” necessarily evade clear...
Cincinnati, Ohio is not a place typically included in public discourse on Appalachia because it does...