Appalachian traditions
Smoky Mountain folkways
Appalachian traditions are the customs, crafts, music, and folkways of the Appalachian mountain region in the eastern United States.
These include distinctive musical styles like old-time and bluegrass, crafts such as quilting and basket weaving, and practices like home canning, herbal medicine, and storytelling.
The traditions blend Scots-Irish, English, German, and Cherokee influences, shaped by geographic isolation: Her grandmother still keeps the old Appalachian traditions—making apple butter, playing the dulcimer, singing hymns in the shape-note style.
- bluegrassAcoustic Appalachian folk music
- basket weavingCreating woven containers
- barn raisingsCommunal farm structure assembly
- oral historyRecorded interviews about the past
- healing ritualsCeremonies intended to cure
quilting · burial customs · ghost stories · tall tales · shape-note singing · ballads · regional dialects · wood carving · fiddle tunes · mountain dulcimer · folk songs · pottery making · clogging · storytelling circles · rug hooking · blacksmithing · square dancing · old-time music
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