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In this PBS gem Mary Jane Queen and her family represent the living traditions of Appalachian folk music and the authentic life and spirit of the North Carolina mountains.
When Mary Jane Prince married Claude Queen in 1935, they united two of the most gifted musical families in their section of Appalachia. This film captures Mary Jane Queen at ninety-two, still climbing the mountain paths behind her house each day and with a vivid recollection of the ballads, songs and lore learned in her childhood. Many of the ballads she still sings with her family date back several centuries, though altered in their passage across generations. Her community retains a keen sense of its own history, heritage and identity as here expressed in exuberant folk music played together with family and neighbors, outdoors on the porch. The music itself is by turns joyful, comical and light-hearted, or dark and moody, a distillation of the soul of the culture.
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For more information visit
languageandlife.org
In this PBS gem Mary Jane Queen and her family represent the living traditions of Appalachian folk music and the authentic life and spirit of the North Carolina mountains.
When Mary Jane Prince married Claude Queen in 1935, they united two of the most gifted musical families in their section of Appalachia. This film captures Mary Jane Queen at ninety-two, still climbing the mountain paths behind her house each day and with a vivid recollection of the ballads, songs and lore learned in her childhood. Many of the ballads she still sings with her family date back several centuries, though altered in their passage across generations. Her community retains a keen sense of its own history, heritage and identity as here expressed in exuberant folk music played together with family and neighbors, outdoors on the porch. The music itself is by turns joyful, comical and light-hearted, or dark and moody, a distillation of the soul of the culture.
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For more information visit
languageandlife.org
