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...Sourwood Mountain, Hop Up, My Ladies). And critics agree that he has shown how to grow native opera-even if it is only small-potato-size opera...
Fortunately, the cartoons and live action are kept separated, but there are moments when Disney appears to be matching his studio-made folk songs (the best are Stick-To-It-Ivity and It's Whatcha Do With Whatcha Got) against Burl's classic Billy Boy and Sourwood Mountain. Since a fair portion of Disney may someday become U.S. folklore, this idea is neither pretentious nor uninteresting...
...shot artists such as Benton, Curry, Sloan and Wood were allotted five or six pages apiece, others from one to three. There were prints to suit everybody. People who itch and fidget when confronted with the self-conscious strainings of Thomas Benton's I Got a Girl on Sourwood Mountain could turn a page to his Lonesome Road. For people who consider John Steuart Curry's darkly violent lithograph Line Storm "theatrical," Critic Craven supplied a pasture pastoral like Curry's bully Ajax. Others who sometimes wonder why Grant Wood indulges in such painstakingly stuffy satire...
...mountaineers, many of them in shirtsleeves, played accordions, dulcimers, banjos, guitars. They sang, as they had heard their parents and grandparents sing, about Sourwood Mountain, turnip greens. old coon dogs, Napoleon Bonaparte. Because many an expert believes that these are the rarest of U. S. folksongs, cameramen were present to film the proceedings for the Library of Congress. Feature of the afternoon was supposed to be an Elizabethan wedding celebration in which Marion Kerby, Chicago ballad expert, soloed. But outsiders were more interested in Jilson Setters, the 75-year-old fiddler whom Miss Thomas took to Lon don a year...
...Sourwood Mountain...
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