Ghost stories
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and Tillman Cadle Recordings
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0347
Scope and Contents
The bulk of this collection is 567 field recordings, most on lacquer discs, made by Mary Elizabeth Barnicle and Tillman Cadle of music, stories, and speech in New York City, Florida, Georgia, the Bahamas, Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee during collecting trips between 1935 and 1950. The recordings document both African-American and Anglo-American folk culture.Supporting materials include a 1989 interview with Tillman Cadle, tape logs, photographs, song lyrics and the disc...
Dates:
1935 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1935 - 1950
Barbara McDermitt Recordings
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0134
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
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Barbara McDermitt Recordings