Ballad Hunting with Max Hunter: Stories of an Ozark Folksong Collector

by Sarah Nelson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252044894
• ISBN13: 9780252044892
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"