JUGment Day sings Sourwood Mountain

On the singing of folk songs:

a treatise by Fetzer (1994) on the significance of children’s songs in elementary schools, found that schools which taught the children’s songs in question experienced a significant growth in confidence, competence, enthusiasm and involvement in reading.

Hill (1997) in The Texas School of the Air: An Educational Radio Endeavor provides an historical account of the use of radio broadcasting to transmit children’s folk songs and other curricular material statewide from 1939 to 1960. Hill’s work delves into the history of educational radio and provides information on the impact of the programming, such as improved language arts skills, heightened school performance, and increased state-wide knowledge of children’s folk songs. Hill’s study reveals that improved family life and social interaction resulted from the radio initiative.