"Available here for the first time is the remarkably diverse folk music of America's Upper Midwest, captured in field recordings by collectors for the Library of Congress from 1937 to 1946. This landmark multimedia work challenges and considerably broadens popular and scholarly understanding of folk music in American culture. Although Eastern, Southern, and Western musical traditions are familiar to fans of American roots music, the restored images...

"The Upper Peninsula of Michigan--known as 'the UP'--is historically, geographically, and culturally distinct. Struggles over land, labor, and language during the last 150 years have shaped the varieties of English spoken by resident Yoopers, as well as how they are viewed by outsiders. Drawing on sixteen years of fieldwork, including interviews with many lifelong residents of the UP, Kathryn Remlinger examines how the idea of a unique Yooper dialect...