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Sodom Laurel Album by Rob Amberg (2002, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807827428

ISBN-139780807827420

eBay Product ID (ePID)2273199

Product Key Features

Book TitleSodom Laurel Album

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2002

TopicFolklore & Mythology, General, Customs & Traditions, Photoessays & Documentaries

IllustratorYes

FeaturesNew Edition

GenreSocial Science, Photography, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorRob Amberg

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2002-002858

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsAmberg's beautiful yet stark and unassuming b&w photos form the book's core. . . . The photos are accompanied by transcribed narratives . . . Most are grim yet immediate and compelling. . . . An exemplary example of regional documentary, the project exhibits care and concern throughout, and will draw in outsiders from any locale."-- Publishers Weekly, We have Rob Amberg's beautiful and respectful photos, stories, and recorded interviews and performances to thank for preserving these real 'songcatchers' and their rich and essential history for a whole new generation.--Mark D. Moss, Sing Out!, If we want to record the lives of the most rural mountain people, we want someone like Amberg to do it. . . . The pictures and stories illustrate [a] subtle, inevitable progression. Amberg has made a good record."-- Now & Then, This is the real thing! Wonderful photos, narrative, and interviews take you deep into the lives and times of the folks of Sodom Laurel. And the singing! The powerful unaccompanied singing tradition, the likes of which you rarely hear anymore, flows from the old people of Sodom Laurel like a deep mountain spring."--Alice Gerrard, Old-Time Herald, If we want to record the lives of the most rural mountain people, we want someone like Amberg to do it. . . . The pictures and stories illustrate [a] subtle, inevitable progression. Amberg has made a good record.-- Now & Then, "We have Rob Amberg's beautiful and respectful photos, stories, and recorded interviews and performances to thank for preserving these real 'songcatchers' and their rich and essential history for a whole new generation."--Mark D. Moss, Sing Out!, Amberg's beautiful yet stark and unassuming b&w photos form the book's core. . . . The photos are accompanied by transcribed narratives . . . Most are grim yet immediate and compelling. . . . An exemplary example of regional documentary, the project exhibits care and concern throughout, and will draw in outsiders from any locale.-- Publishers Weekly, Amberg has skillfully crafted the profound narrative of a community, a family, and most exquisitely, a woman constantly on the brink of change. . . . [He] has assimilated meaning into image and supported those images with the stories, interviews, and music that bind the community of Sodom Laurel together. -- Appalachian Life, Rob Amberg has rendered exquisite portraits of Americans rarely seen. . . . Thanks to him, they live on in these pages, and tell their stories, and their existence on this earth is given dignity and meaning and reverence. (Larry Brown), "This is the real thing! Wonderful photos, narrative, and interviews take you deep into the lives and times of the folks of Sodom Laurel. And the singing! The powerful unaccompanied singing tradition, the likes of which you rarely hear anymore, flows from the old people of Sodom Laurel like a deep mountain spring."--Alice Gerrard, Old-Time Herald, "A flowing record of candid recollections by Amberg, Norton and her family interwoven with intimate photographs shot over two decades."-- Carolina Country, A flowing record of candid recollections by Amberg, Norton and her family interwoven with intimate photographs shot over two decades.-- Carolina Country, These photographs are suffused with a lyrical sense of beauty, rhythm, and the dignity of light. You come away with a deep understanding of the hardships and glories that made up Dellie Norton's life, her community, and her adventures in this world. (John Cohen), Although books of photographs should mostly stand solely on the merits of the imagery with few, if any, words, even Rob Amberg's personal journal is unobtrusive, adding an additional level of depth to a document already deeply rich. . . . The photographs, in conjunction with the CD, weave a rich tapestry that warmly embraces you."-- Journal of Appalachian Studies, Amberg has skillfully crafted the profound narrative of a community, a family, and most exquisitely, a woman constantly on the brink of change. . . . [He] has assimilated meaning into image and supported those images with the stories, interviews, and music that bind the community of Sodom Laurel together." -- Appalachian Life, We have Rob Amberg's beautiful and respectful photos, stories, and recorded interviews and performances to thank for preserving these real 'songcatchers' and their rich and essential history for a whole new generation."--Mark D. Moss, Sing Out!, [Amberg's] subjects are worn with the hard work of planting and harvesting tobacco, yet this book celebrates a way of life maintained through generations by the spirit of family and community, story and song. . . . Includes a memorable CD of Dellie Norton and others singing traditional, yet still vital, Appalachian music. This fine work should be included in all social history or regional studies collections and in large public collections."-- Library Journal, "If we want to record the lives of the most rural mountain people, we want someone like Amberg to do it. . . . The pictures and stories illustrate [a] subtle, inevitable progression. Amberg has made a good record."-- Now & Then, This book reminds us of the dignity and nobility that lie in ordinary places and ordinary people, without a trace of condescension. (Bill Malone), A flowing record of candid recollections by Amberg, Norton and her family interwoven with intimate photographs shot over two decades."-- Carolina Country, Although books of photographs should mostly stand solely on the merits of the imagery with few, if any, words, even Rob Amberg's personal journal is unobtrusive, adding an additional level of depth to a document already deeply rich. . . . The photographs, in conjunction with the CD, weave a rich tapestry that warmly embraces you.-- Journal of Appalachian Studies, "Although books of photographs should mostly stand solely on the merits of the imagery with few, if any, words, even Rob Amberg's personal journal is unobtrusive, adding an additional level of depth to a document already deeply rich. . . . The photographs, in conjunction with the CD, weave a rich tapestry that warmly embraces you."-- Journal of Appalachian Studies, [Amberg's] subjects are worn with the hard work of planting and harvesting tobacco, yet this book celebrates a way of life maintained through generations by the spirit of family and community, story and song. . . . Includes a memorable CD of Dellie Norton and others singing traditional, yet still vital, Appalachian music. This fine work should be included in all social history or regional studies collections and in large public collections.-- Library Journal, This book is not only a priceless record of a vanishing way of life; it's a work of art. It deserves every prize out there. (Lee Smith), "[Amberg's] subjects are worn with the hard work of planting and harvesting tobacco, yet this book celebrates a way of life maintained through generations by the spirit of family and community, story and song. . . . Includes a memorable CD of Dellie Norton and others singing traditional, yet still vital, Appalachian music. This fine work should be included in all social history or regional studies collections and in large public collections."-- Library Journal, Readers in search of a unique and richly textured experience will appreciate the opportunity to hear [Norton's] voice--unapologetic and raw, interpreting traditional Appalachian ballads. Amberg's time spent with Norton, Junior, and the Sodom Laurel Community results in a compelling portrait of a family bound by place and united by the past."-- Our State, "Readers in search of a unique and richly textured experience will appreciate the opportunity to hear [Norton's] voice--unapologetic and raw, interpreting traditional Appalachian ballads. Amberg's time spent with Norton, Junior, and the Sodom Laurel Community results in a compelling portrait of a family bound by place and united by the past."-- Our State, "Amberg's beautiful yet stark and unassuming b&w photos form the book's core. . . . The photos are accompanied by transcribed narratives . . . Most are grim yet immediate and compelling. . . . An exemplary example of regional documentary, the project exhibits care and concern throughout, and will draw in outsiders from any locale."-- Publishers Weekly, Readers in search of a unique and richly textured experience will appreciate the opportunity to hear [Norton's] voice--unapologetic and raw, interpreting traditional Appalachian ballads. Amberg's time spent with Norton, Junior, and the Sodom Laurel Community results in a compelling portrait of a family bound by place and united by the past.-- Our State, This is the real thing! Wonderful photos, narrative, and interviews take you deep into the lives and times of the folks of Sodom Laurel. And the singing! The powerful unaccompanied singing tradition, the likes of which you rarely hear anymore, flows from the old people of Sodom Laurel like a deep mountain spring.--Alice Gerrard, Old-Time Herald, These photographs and texts haunt like the ballads Dellie Norton sang, and they startle with paradox, unexpected detail. (Robert Morgan), "Amberg has skillfully crafted the profound narrative of a community, a family, and most exquisitely, a woman constantly on the brink of change. . . . [He] has assimilated meaning into image and supported those images with the stories, interviews, and music that bind the community of Sodom Laurel together." -- Appalachian Life

Dewey Decimal779/.99756/875091734

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisWhen photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians. Sodom Laurel Album traces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together. Sodom Laurel Album is the companion publication to a traveling exhibition that will open at the Asheville Art Museum in November 2002.This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts., When Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton, she was 76 years old and had lived most of her life in the mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina. This work traces the relationship between them, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and by the gatherings of family., When photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians.Sodom Laurel Albumtraces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music.Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs,Sodom Laurel Albumtells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together.Sodom Laurel Albumis the companion publication to a traveling exhibition that will open at the Asheville Art Museum in 2002., When photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians. Sodom Laurel Album traces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music.Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together. Sodom Laurel Album is the companion publication to a traveling exhibition that will open at the Asheville Art Museum in November 2002.This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts., When photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians. Sodom Laurel Album traces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of Sodom Laurel and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together. Sodom Laurel Album is the companion publication to a traveling exhibition that will open at the Asheville Art Museum in November 2002. This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

LC Classification Number2002002858 [TR]