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Dulcimer

 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-0104
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

Thomas G. Burton-Ambrose N. Manning Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0025
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

Charles Gunter Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: AppMs-0069
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of recordings of interviews conducted by Gunter's students in connection with his courses on social geography. The interview subjects are primarily from East Tennessee and often discuss topics of regional interest such as music, farm life, coal mining, and foodways. The collection also includes dub sheets for the first eight tapes, partial transcripts of tapes 2, 5 and 6, and summaries of interviews.

Dates: 1974-1996

Roan Mountain Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0435
Scope and Contents The Roan Mountain Project was part of the Upper Cumberland Folklore, Folklife, and Oral History Archives Project sponsored by the Tennessee Department of Conservation. Homer Kemp of Tennessee Technological University’s Upper Cumberland Studies Program, headed the Upper Cumberland project for the department of conservation. During 1992, the project evaluated various types of documentation available on the folklore and folklife of Roan Mountain. Among the types of documentation included in the...
Dates: 1991-1992