Citations:Affrilachian

See also: Citations:Afrilachian

English citations of Affrilachian

• 2013, Jacqueline Edmondson Ph.D., Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories that Shaped our Culture [4 volumes]: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture, ABC-CLIO (→ISBN), page 11:

  Affrilachian Music. Appalachia is generally conceived of as the contiguous mountainous area of the southern Appalachian Mountain [Range ...] “Affrilachian,” a term coined by poet Frank X. Walker, refers to African Americans who reside in this region. […] had been “whitewashed and homogenized,” and Fayetta Allen addressed the Affrilachians' “invisibility.” Affrilachians' invisibility applied not only to their presence in the mountains but also to their musical influence on white mountain music.

• 2013, Theresa L. Burriss, Patricia M. Gantt, Appalachia in the Classroom: Teaching the Region, Ohio University Press (→ISBN), page 219:

  Or in the case of York and the Affrilachians, the oppressors or socially dominant dictate whose stories are passed on and whose are intentionally silenced. While it may be easier for students to identify absent voices in history and literature ...

• 2015, Sara Webb-Sunderhaus, Kim Donehower, Rereading Appalachia: Literacy, Place, and Cultural Resistance, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN), page 123:

  However, thanks to growing recognition of Affrilachians in literacy performances across the city, Cincinnati researchers began broadening their methods of identification.

• 2015, Parneshia Jones, Vessel: Poems, Milkweed Editions (→ISBN), page 58:

  Sometimes he grazes alone and other times he travels with a mystical tribe of Affrilachians. Anyone that walks these bluegrass lands knows the stories. They know when thunder shakes the hills, Affrilachians are writing.

• 2016, William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher, Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress, University Press of Kentucky (→ISBN), page 47:

  According to all three of these Affrilachian scholars' works, Affrilachian music is both “traditional and multicultural.” I adopt Hay's observation and extend these qualities to Affrilachian musical performance.