Gospel music

Scope and Contents The Richard Blaustein Collection contains photographs, tapes, newsclippings, a scrapbook, correspondence, and publications which relate to the study and teaching of the history of country music, performances of the Dixie Dewdrops, the Old Time Country Radio Reunion, the Homefolks Festival and the Folk Artists-in-the-Schools program.In 2000, an addition to the collection was processed. Included in the addition to the Richard Blaustein Collection are open reel audiotapes of...

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. ...

Scope and Contents The 60 minute audiocassette recording is a compilation of excerpts from a local, gospel radio broadcast. Burleson recorded the broadcasts over several Sundays. The particular program and gospel performers are not identified on the recording. The program was likely broadcast from Elizabethton or Carter County vicinity and featured performers from the Fork Mountain Baptist Church in Tiger Valley. Gospel songs are interspersed with commentary and lists of individuals requesting prayer. The...

Arrangement The Collection is divided into four series as follows: Series 1, Glenn Roberts Firestone Tire Radio Program Recordings, 1972-1976, and undated; Series 2, Bluegrass Festival Recordings, 1975-1981, and undated; Series 3, Home Jamming REcordings, 1968; and Series 4, Non-performance and Compilation Recordings, 1974-1981, and undated. Arrangement in each series is chronological, with tapes of questionable dates or with no dates, placed after the dated materials. Printed materials...

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The Harvey Lee Hughett Collection consists of 120 reel-to-reel tape recordings made between 1950 and 1977 of religious meetings at various East Tennessee churches, singing, "homecomings," folk music, and informal interviews with rural people.

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The Wayne Scott Rial Collection consists of materials related to Rial's research on southern Appalachian gospel music and includes a copy of a report Rial wrote on the subject, a 1992 newsletter (Old Harp: The New Harp of Columbia Newsletter), and a box of 4' x 5' index cards containing announcements of gospel singings in the region, 1987-94.

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The recordings consist of nine audiotapes of the Carlton Haney Labor Day Bluegrass Festival in Berryville, Virginia, recorded by Rod Roach in September 1967; an audiotape of the Shady Valley boys in 1963; an undated audiotape of J.D. Crowe and Bill Monroe performances; and an undated audiotape of a Rod Roach band rehearsal.

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...