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...Chicago they know them as WASPS (for White Appalachian Southern Protestants), in Cincinnati as SAMS (for Southern Appalachian Migrants). St. Louis calls them, among other things, swamp turkeys and hoosiers. In Columbus and Cleveland they are simply called hillbillies (the name they dislike most). By whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every...
Master of the World (American International). In the summer of 1848 an Appalachian summit known as The Great Eyrie was rocked by violent explosions and a moment later a tremendous voice cried out, as if from the heart of the mountain, and prophesied the destruction of the world. The U.S. was electrified by the news and fascinated by the mystery it portended: Had the Lord God again, as in the olden time, spoken to his people...
...INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION : Hard-marketing Kaiser has sold 400 aluminum transmission towers to the Appalachian Power Co. for a 122-mile line that will rise this fall between Roanoke, Va., and Glasgow, W. Va. Two all-aluminum highway bridges are now abuilding on Long Island...
...most successful work in the style, the stately and luminous Appalachian Spring won a Pulitzer Prize and provided an answer to critics who felt he had sold out to popular taste. It was in this period also that Copland made another, highly engaging effort to bring music closer to the people; he wrote several works for amateur performance, including The Second Hurricane, a short opera designed for high school singers. Now recorded for the first time (Columbia), Hurricane is a simple, melodic, resolutely folksy work with an exuberant rhythmic drive. Copland abandoned the role of "people's composer" when...
...made him the hero of the col lege folk revival. Seeger's voice is twangy and his pitch uncertain, but he sings with unequaled verve and a kind of rough-hewn sense of conviction. An ardent leftwinger, he once sang many industrial songs, now is better known for Appalachian mountain songs (Pretty Polly) and Negro classics like I'm on My Way and Takes a Worried...