Selected Jean Ritchie Bibliography
The Swapping Song Book by Call Number: 784.3 R599s (Location: Circulating Collection)Publication Date: 1952, Oxford University Press. Republished c1999 by University Press of Kentucky."Twenty-one songs from the southern Appalachians."
Photos by Geoge Pickow, piano arrangements by A. K. Fossner and Edward Tripp.Singing Family of the Cumberlands by
Call Number: 929.2 R599s (Location: Circulating Collection)Publication Date: 1955, Oxford University Press. Republished 1988, University Press of Kentucky.Illustrated by Maurice Sendak.The Dulcimer Book by
Call Number: 787.9 R599d (Location: Special Collection Mountain Collection)Publication Date: 1963, Oak Publications"Being a book about the three-stringed Appalachian dulcimer, including some ways of tuning and playing; some recollections in its local history in Perry and Knott Counties, Kentucky; some observations on the probable origins of the instrument in the old countries of Europe; with plentiful photographic illustrations and drawings; and with words and music for some sixteen songs from the Ritchie Family of Kentucky."
Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians by Call Number: 784.4 F667 1965 (Location: Special Collections Mountain Collection)Publication Date: 1965, Oak Publications. Also republished in 1997 (University Press of Kentucky) with forewords by Alan Lomax and Ron Pen."as sung by Jean Ritchie; 77 traditional songs, tunes, and ballads from the singing of Jean Ritchie and the Ritchie family, with guitar chords and notes on the songs."Celebration of Life: her songs, her poems by
Call Number: 784.4 R599cPublication Date: 1971, Geordie Music PublishingPrinted Music Collection- Between 789 - 790 (3rd Floor)
Compiled by John Bondurant, Sound Preservation & Access Specialist
