Evaluation of Appalachian Songs and Singing Games Project

This web site, created in July, 2007 is in pilot stages of use. Teachers and Music Education students utilizing the Appalachian Songs and Singing Games project pages are doing so with the understanding that their feedback is invaluable to the development of the final version of the site. Other than revising "dead" links, the final version will be unchanged, once the pilot testing phase has ended. Please follow the instructions for evaluating the site as given to you in your workshop or class after reading and teaching at least one of the lessons that follows.

 

Thank you very much for your participation in the evaluation phase of this project. We hope your experience with the sound recordings and teaching ideas is a positive one and serves to further pique your interest, and the interest of your students in traditional Appalachian music.

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Acknowledgements

Sincere thanks go to the many cultural informants who consented and contributed to the musical content, social context and philosophical foundations for the Appalachian Songs and Singing Games project. Jean Ritchie, Alice White, Al White, Donna Lamb, Irene Broyles, Deborah Denenfeld, and Penny Messenger are especially acknowledged for contributions through singing, remembering, or explaining repertoire and cultural perspective on Southern Appalachia in the early 20th century.

Thanks also to Harry Rice for his oversight of this project and the Appalachian Music Fellowship program; John Bondurant, for his sound archival engineering; and The Joe and Patty Tarter Family of Berea, Kentucky for their home hospitality during the research phase of the project.

The Hutchins Library Special Collections and Archives Department is under the directorship of Mr. Shannon Wilson. All of the Special Collections staff and the greater Hutchins Library faculty and staff were extremely supportive and enthusiastic throughout the research and writing of this web site.


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