Olive D. Campbell

Compilation of traditional English folk songs collected and transcribed by Campbell and Sharpe in the early 1900s from the Southern Appalachians.

In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and ""songcatcher"" Olive Dame Campbell traveled with her husband, John C. Campbell, through the Southern Highlands region of Appalachia to survey the social and economic conditions in mountain communities. Throughout the journey, Olive kept a detailed diary offering a vivid, entertaining, and personal account of the places the couple visited, the people they met, and the mountain cultures they encountered.Although John C. Campbell's book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region...