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Folk music

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 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.
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Charles Faulkner Bryan Papers

Christy Family Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-84
Arrangement The Christy Family Papers are divided into two series: Series 1, Thomas Calvin Christy: Subject Files, 1970-84, Box 1, and Series 2, Audio and Video Materials, 1951-82. Series 1 contains biographical information, work-related materials, financial and legal documents, and personal memorabilia. Series 2 consists of audio and video tapes of programs Christy worked on in various capacities. Included, for example, are Broadside TV videos, WETS-FM Zeitgeist programs, and WKPT-FM programs. Also...
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / 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...
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Joseph Sargent Hall Collection

Barbara McDermitt Collection

 Collection — Other Boxes 1-2
Identifier: 500-AppMs 134
Scope and Contents The Barbara McDermitt Collection includes 28 audiocassette field trip tapes of storytellers telling stories; 14 photographs, mainly of storytellers; and one file folder, which includes the reports on the field trip tapes. The tapes were recorded in the summer of 1982 in Beech Mountain, North Carolina.
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / Barbara McDermitt Collection

William S. Trent Collection

 Collection — Other Videotape 1
Identifier: 500-AppMs 332
Scope and Contents The William S. Trent Collection is a videotape recording, approximately two hours in length, which consists of three distinct sections. The first part is a recording of an outdoor "ballad swap" held at an unidentified location in Mars Hill, North Carolina, on October 1, 1988. Most of the performers and songs performed are unidentified; most of the singers performed a cappella, but a few accompanied themselves on guitar. The second part is a recording of Shelia Kay Adams singing and telling...
Found in: Archives of Appalachia / William S. Trent Collection

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