Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector (Music in American Life)

A traveling salesman with little formal education, Max Hunter gravitated to song catching and ballad hunting while on business trips in the Ozarks. Hunter recorded nearly 1600 traditional songs by more than 200 singers from the mid-1950s through the mid-1970s, all the while focused on preserving the music in its unaltered form. Sarah Jane Nelson chronicles Hunter's song collecting adventures alongside portraits of the singers and mentors he met along the way. The guitar-strumming Hunter picked up the recording habit to expand his repertoire but almost immediately embraced the role of song preservationist. Being a local allowed Hunter to merge his native Ozark earthiness with sharp observational skills to connect--often more than once--with his singers. Hunter's own ability to be present added to that sense of connection. Despite his painstaking approach, ballad collecting was also a source of pleasure for Hunter. Ultimately, his dedication to capturing Ozarks song culture in its natural state brought Hunter into contact with people like Vance Randolph, Mary Parler, and non-academic folklorists who shared his values.

Biographies & Memoirs

Nelson, Sarah

Arts & Literature

University of Illinois Press

COCHRAN, ROBERT

A Perfect Storm is a 28-day devotional written against the backdrop of a true story about a two-year-old girl, Adalee, who suffered a stroke while on a family ski vacation. This heartwarming testimony depicts a real-life example of how scripture comes to life through the Holy Spirit to speak to us in our darkest circumstances. The author and mother, Sarah Nelson, shares their journey to encourage and build the faith of readers who are dealing with a crisis. This inspiring story of love, prayer, and healing is intertwined with the testimony of another family who suffered the loss of their infant daughter. The mother and featured guest, Shelley Reeves, shares how God used Adalee's crisis to minister to her during this time of pain and sadness.Each devotion tells the story in a sequence and focuses on a scripture, lesson, and sound theological application followed by a prayer to lead and engage the reader. The lessons relate to anyone walking through a crisis and will offer a perspective of how we can use our own difficulty to help others who may be navigating their own Perfect Storm.The focus is to inspire the reader to look beyond themselves to see how their personal heartache or tragedy can be used by God to strengthen their faith and encourage others.

A Perfect Storm: Devotions During A Crisis

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Sarah Nelson

A Perfect Storm is a 28-day devotional written against the backdrop of a true story about a two-year-old girl, Adalee, who suffered a stroke while on a family ski vacation. This heartwarming testimony depicts a real-life example of how scripture comes to life through the Holy Spirit to speak to us in our darkest circumstances. The author and mother, Sarah Nelson, shares their journey to encourage and build the faith of readers who are dealing with a crisis.\nThis inspiring story of love, prayer, and healing intertwines with the testimony of another family who suffered the loss of their infant daughter. The mother and featured guest, Shelley Reeves, shares how God used Adalee's crisis to minister to her during this time of pain and sadness.\nEach devotion tells the story in a sequence and focuses on a scripture, lesson, and sound theological application followed by a prayer to lead and engage the reader. The lessons relate to anyone walking through a crisis and will offer a perspective of how we can use our own difficulty to help others who may be navigating their own Perfect Storm.\nThe focus is to inspire the reader to look beyond themselves to see how their personal heartache or tragedy can be used by God to strengthen their faith and encourage others.

A Perfect Storm: Devotions During a Crisis

Self-Help

Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Protestant Political, Paramilitary, and Community Groups, and the Northern Ireland Conflict (Irish Studies (Hardcover))

History

Europe

Syracuse University Press

Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Protestant Political, Paramilitary and Community Groups and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Americas

Syracuse Univ Pr

Ulster's Uncertain Defenders: Loyalists and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Appletree Press, [

Business & Money

Business Culture

Incest: Fact and myth

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Stramullion Co-operative

Birth of the Bicycle: A Bumpy History of the Bicycle in America 1819–1900

Children's Books

Science, Nature & How It Works

Candlewick

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