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Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0025
Scope and Contents
The collection resulted from Dr. Burton’s and Mr. Manning’s interests in Appalachian folklore and related teaching, research, and service activities. A central component of the collection consists of reel-to-reel audio recordings, dub sheets, transcripts, and indices created as part of the professors' efforts to gather ballads, instrumental music, stories, superstitions and beliefs, folk remedies, and accounts of everyday life from individuals in Western North Carolina and East Tennessee. ...
Dates:
1899 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1967 - 1971
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old-Time Music
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: AppMs-0387
Scope and Contents
"Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old-Time Music" was a 13-part radio series developed in the late 1980s by Rachel Anne Goodman, at the time an employee of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. The series focused on women who were important to the development of country and old-time music and aired on public radio stations in 1990 and consists of interviews by Rachel Anne Goodman and segments of the artists’ music.There are also typed transcripts to tape 5 (Jean...
Dates:
1989-1990
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
William L. and Gowan Merson Smith Recordings
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0639
Scope and Contents
The William L. and Gowan Merson Smith Recordings consist of 78 open reel audiotapes and 5 audiocassettes. They include tapes of William and Gowan Smith, live and home performances of fiddle playing, compilations of recorded fiddle playing, and tapes of mass-produced television, radio, and commercial fiddle recordings.
Dates:
1957-1976 and undated
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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- Baker, Etta, 1913-2006 1
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