Folk music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers
Collection — Box 1: Series Series 3
Identifier: AppMs-104
Scope and Contents
The collection reflects Bryan's career as a composer, folklore collector, performer, and teacher. The microfilmed portion of the collection includes correspondence, biographical and financial papers, newspaper clippings, programs, teaching notes, folk music and folklore collections, professional publications, and composition scores and scripts.
Dates:
1892 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1941 - 1955
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers
Christy Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-84
Scope and Contents
The Christy Family Papers consists of materials relating to Thomas Calvin Christy's work on radio and television programs. The papers include correspondence, audio and video recordings, photographs, and personal documents pertaining to the Christy Family.
Dates:
1951-1984
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Christy Family Papers
Joseph Sargent Hall Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-422
Scope and Contents
The Joseph Hall Collection focuses primarily on Hall’s research of language and folklore of the people living in the Great Smoky Mountains. The bulk of the papers result from Hall’s fieldwork dating from 1937-1941 and include notebooks; notes on index cards; reel-to-reel tape recorded interviews; transcripts; typed manuscripts derived from the interviews; photographs; and slides. The field recordings and related materials document the Appalachian dialect, including word meaning and usage and...
Dates:
1915 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1977
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Joseph Sargent Hall Collection
Barbara McDermitt Recordings
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-134
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