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Archive Collection, 1989.

Title: Archive Collection, 1989.

Recordings of the Sounds of the South Conference, held 6-8 April 1989 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including panel discussions, papers, and addresses on topics related to history and issues in field collecting and recording traditional music, including old-time, bluegrass, gospel, country, conjunto, Cajun, and American Indian music, and the history of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation and the Southern Folklife collection. More than 300 participants included field collectors, record collectors, academic and public folklorists, performing musicians, record producers, librarians, and organizers of folk festivals and tours, such as Anglo-American folklorists Bess Lomas Hawes, Anthony Seeger, William Ivey, Daniel Patterson, Alan Jabbour, Archie Green, country music scholar Bill C. Malone, and blues scholar Paul Oliver. The book "Sounds of the South" was published in 1992 in commemoration and follow-up to the conference, and contains many pertinent essays.

ArchivalResource: 18 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27207547 View

Biography: Melvyn Douglas, 1972-1980

Title: Biography: Melvyn Douglas 1972-1980

The interviews contained in this project revolve around the life of Melvyn Douglas and include information about his biographical history, his family, his theatrical, motion picture, and television acting career, and his efforts during World War II. The interviewees include fellow actors and actresses, the man himself, former employees, and others who came into contact with Melvyn Douglas throughout his life.

ArchivalResource: 35 interviews; Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=ohrc021 View

News Service Biographical Files, ., circa 1930s - 2004

Title: News Service Biographical Files, . circa 1930s - 2004

The Duke News Service informs the public and the university community about research, programs, and events at Duke. The collection consists of biographical files of Duke University faculty, staff, alumni, and others compiled by the News Service. The files contain primarily clippings and also curricula vitae, photographs, and other printed materials.

ArchivalResource: 183 Linear Feet,; 122,000 Items; (122 boxes)

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/uansbio/ View

Dixie Diners. Dixie Diners records, 1990 [manuscript].

Title: Dixie Diners records, 1990 [manuscript].

Audio cassette tapes and other materials from several series of lectures in 1990, most of which were sponsored by the Dixie Diners, a graduate history lunch group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lectures include: "North Carolina's New Museum of History" by John Ellington; "Opening the Broders: The Cultural Politics of the Columbus Quincentenary" by Alicia Gonzalez and Theda Perdue; "A History of Southern Protest Song" by Charles Joyner; "Country Music and the Academy: A Thirty-Year Personal and Professional Odyssey" by Bill C. Malone; "Oral History of an Ex-Slave Community" by Sydney Nathans; "Migrants and Immigrants (Mexicans in North Carolina)" by Martha Nelson; "The Politics of Culture in the Alabama Black Belt" by Allen Tullos; and "The Meanings of 'Hillbilly': Images of Mountain People in American Media" by Jerry Williamson.

ArchivalResource: 20 items (1 folder and audio tapes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34075022 View

Bill C. Malone Collection, 2000

Title: Bill C. Malone Collection, 1950s-2016

Bill C. Malone, professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, is known for his cultural and historical studies of country music. During the spring 2000 semester, Malone served as the first Lehman Brady Chair Professor, a joint position shared between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The collection includes audiotapes of interviews with Bill C. Malone conducted by by David Whisnant, Henry Armijo, and Wells Tower in 2000; a videotape of a public singing lecture given by Malone at the UNC-Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000 (text copy included); and audiotapes of lectures from Malone's course on (syllabus included), which he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in spring 2000. Guest performers/lecturers in the course included Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones. Topics included Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women. Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work, Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music

ArchivalResource: 28.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 17,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20315/ View

Bill C. Malone Collection, 2000

Title: Bill C. Malone Collection, 1950s-2016

Bill C. Malone, professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, is known for his cultural and historical studies of country music. During the spring 2000 semester, Malone served as the first Lehman Brady Chair Professor, a joint position shared between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The collection includes audiotapes of interviews with Bill C. Malone conducted by by David Whisnant, Henry Armijo, and Wells Tower in 2000; a videotape of a public singing lecture given by Malone at the UNC-Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000 (text copy included); and audiotapes of lectures from Malone's course on (syllabus included), which he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in spring 2000. Guest performers/lecturers in the course included Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones. Topics included Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women. Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work, Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music

ArchivalResource: 28.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 17,000 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20315/ View

Southern Folklife Collection Artist Name File, 1940-2005

Title: Southern Folklife Collection Artist Name File, 1940-2005

The materials in this collection were compiled from various sources by Southern Folklife Collection staff, with the goal of creating a reference resource to aid in research. Artist name files contain correspondence, booklets, obituaries, press releases, discographies, promotional materials, and other items relating to many of the artists whose work is relevant to the Southern Folklife Collection as a whole.

ArchivalResource: Items: About 3,200; Linear Feet: 21.0

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/30005/ View