Banjo music
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian-Scottish and Irish Studies Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-326
Scope and Contents
The Appalachian-Scottish & Irish Studies Collection focuses on the various components of the academic studies program examining the history and culture of Appalachia, Scotland, Ireland, and the interrelationships of the three locales. Materials document course work, lectures, field trips, student papers or projects, notes, schedules, and other aspects of the program. Documentation is found in manuscript records, audio and videorecordings, and photographs. The material provides insight on...
Dates:
1957-1997
Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-25
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
Joe Bethancourt Collection
Collection — Other 1 packet
Identifier: AppMs-474
Arrangement
The collection is arranged alphabetically in a single series.
Dates:
1994-1995
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Joe Bethancourt 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
William S. Trent Videotape
Collection — Videotape 1
Identifier: 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...
Dates:
1988
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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William S. Trent Videotape