Carolina Quotes
Mama told me one time that they threw their culture away with both hands because they associated it with that poverty
Sheila Kay Adams Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Interview with Josephine Reed on her porch in Madison County, North Carolina, Art Works podcast, National Endowment for the Arts, September 2013
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- interview
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- Art Works podcast, NEA
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- 2013
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They felt like that old music, those old songs, that old fiddle-, banjo-playing music was directly linked somehow to that extreme poverty that they suffered as children and young adults. Mama told me one time that they threw their culture away with both hands because they associated it with that poverty