Barbara McDermitt Recordings
Scope and Contents
The Barbara McDermitt Recordings consist of 28 audiocassette recordings of Ray Hicks, Hattie Presnell, Stanley Hicks and Frank Proffitt, Jr. telling stories, playing music, and singing; 14 photographs, mainly of storytellers; and reports on the field trip tapes as well as a partial transcript of the Ray Hicks tapes. The tapes were recorded in the summer of 1982 in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
Dates
- 1982
Creator
- McDermitt, Barbara Rice Damron (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
User copies are available for use in the Archives of Appalachia reading room.
Conditions Governing Use
Material may be duplicated for educational and research use.
Extent
1 linear feet (28 audiocassettes; 3 file folders)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Barbara McDermitt donated the recordings to the Archives of Appalachia on September 28, 1982 and June 1, 1987.
Separated Materials
Barbara McDermitt's dissertation, A Comparison of a Scottish and American Storyteller and Their Märchen Repertoires, has been catalogued and added to the Archives of Appalachia book collection.
Processing Information
Marie Tedesco completed processing and the collection was opened for research in October 1987. Jen Bingham revised the finding aid and added the Ray Hicks transcripts in November 2019.
- MacGregor, Maggie
- Presnell, Hattie, b. 1907
- Proffitt, Frank, 1946-
- Robertson, Stanley
- Stewart, Maggie
- Banjo music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Devil -- Fiction Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Dulcimer music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Folk music Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Ghost stories Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Harmonica Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Hicks, Ray, 1922-2003
- Hicks, Stanley, 1911-1989
- Jack tales Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lie-Hew tales Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Personal papers Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Storytelling Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Witches--Fiction Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu
