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Synopsis
In 1959, the sisters Alma, Helen, and Phydella Gilbert began compiling songs they remembered from their early lives and sending them to one another in letters. Cochran (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayette) used those letters and other sources to construct a portrait of the musically centered family and its connection to its community of Zion, Arkansas. He combines personal and academic approaches to reveal oral tradition as it is practiced. He appends many of the songs, some with scores. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR