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Classic sounds of the South collection, 2001.

Title: Classic sounds of the South collection, 2001.

The Classic Sounds of the South Collection includes six video recordings of concert performances by country music artists Tift Merritt and the Carbines, Johnny Irion, and Sarah Lee Guthrie, and a concert poster by graphic artist Ron Liberti resulting from a concert series sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Folklore, 7-8 December 2001.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20357/ View

Rowland, Woodrow W. Woodrow W. Rowland storytelling videotapes, 1978.

Title: Woodrow W. Rowland storytelling videotapes, 1978.

The collection consists of two video tapes of a performance by traditional Appalachian storyteller Woodrow W. Rowland during a 1978 visit to Charles (Terry) Zug's folklore class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He tells two Jack tales, "Cat 'N Mouse" and "The Heifer Hide," and several humorous true stories about the people in western North Carolina mountain community, where Rowland lived in all his life.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319551245 View

Green, Archie. Archie Green papers, 1944-2009.

Title: Archie Green papers, 1944-2009.

The collection includes correspondence, subject files, research materials, writings, photographs, and other materials pertaining chiefly to Green's professional activities, circa 1955-2008. Materials reflect Green's interests in the study of folklore; occupational folklore, with special emphasis on songs relating to textile workers, railroad workers, coal miners, and cowboys; labor history, especially the 1919 riot in Centralia, Wash.; early country (hillbilly) music; sound recording archives; folk musicians; and production and collection of sound recordings. There are also materials relating to Green's research and teaching activities and participation in professional associations, music and folklore festivals, and the faculty labor union at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The additions to the papers of Archie Green build on and expand the topical content of the original deposit. Beyond the subjects already described, notable topics represented in these additions include Green's lobbying efforts on behalf of the Citizens' Committee for an American Folklife Foundation (CCAFF) to establish the American Folklife Center; songs relating to oil field, longshore, and cannery workers, and to the Homestead Strike; songs and history of wobblies and the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.); the 1913 Wheatland, Calif., riot; folk art, labor art, and artists, and artists; unions and working culture of shipwrights, pile drivers, millwrights and carpenters, loggers, and maritime, steel, sheetmetal, and timber workers; labor landmarks throughout the United States, but especially in the San Francisco Bay area; the history of federal government support for folk life; the role of public sector/applied folklore in the preservation of folklore and cultural conservation; the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project; and graphic art representations of folklore and labor themes, including depictions of folk hero John Henry. In these projects, he worked with many folklorists, musicologists, and others. Green collected a wide variety of materials on folk and labor themes, including art and music; newsletters; pamphlets, bibliographies; work songs; work tales; and posters, clippings, and other ephemera. His papers also include the extensive collections of labor lyrics and musical scores and pamphlets on socialism and labor topics from John Neuhaus. Other materials in the additions document Green's teaching career at the University of Texas; his participation in organizations dedicated to the study of labor history and culture, such as the Fund for Labor Culture & History and the San Francisco State University Labor Archives and Research Center; collaboration with John Neuhaus on the "Big Red Songbook" and Peter Tamony on etymology of labor slang terms; and a long relationship with the University of North Carolina, where he gave lectures, organized conferences, and led fundraising for the John Edwards Memorial Foundation Fund and an occupational folklore fellowship. There is some documentation of Green's personal finances, especially his budget for books, records, and journals, and some biographical materials. Audio and video recordings from the original deposit and the additions are filed together in Series 10. Some of the individuals, organizations, and events represented in this collection appear as access points in the online catalog terms section of this finding aid but researchers are advised to keyword search throughout the finding aid for additional name, place and subject terms.

ArchivalResource: ca. 124000 items (277.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26661042 View

Heaney, Joe, 1919-1984. Archive collection 63-71, 1981.

Title: Archive collection 63-71, 1981.

Live recording of Heaney performing songs from the sean-nos tradition and telling Irish stories and legends in Irish and English.

ArchivalResource: 9 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27043599 View

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Curriculum in Folklore. Archive collection 81-92, 1985 March 29-30.

Title: Archive collection 81-92, 1985 March 29-30.

Live recordings of a concert entitled "Black Traditions in Music, Dance, and Verse," and a forum entitled "Black American Folklife." The concert featured Fris Holloway, African American blues pianist and buckdancer from Durham, N.C.; John Dee Holeman (1929- ), African American blues guitarist and buckdancer from Durham, N.C.; and Horace "Spoons" Williams, African American spoons player and teller of rhymed narratives born in South Carolina, presenting older traditions of blues guitar and piano, buckdancing, rhythmic spoons, and rhymed verse. Also featured were Groove Phi Groove, a male African American social fellowship from North Carolina Central University presenting a contemporary style of unison stepping; Street Justice, an African American group from Durham, N.C., presenting break dancing; and the M.C. Power Lords, presenting rapping and scratching. The forum featured Charles Joyner, an Anglo-American historian and folklorist from the University of South Carolina speaking on "Buh Rabbit on the Slave Plantation: Folklore and History Reconsidered"; Darryl Dance, an African American folklorist from Virginia Commonwealth University, speaking on urban black and Caribbean traditions; Glenn Hinson, an Anglo- American folklorist from Durham, N.C., speaking on African American gospel performance; and Holly Matthews, an Anglo-American anthropologist from East Carolina University, speaking on ethnomedicine in the American South.

ArchivalResource: 10 sound recordings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27043483 View

Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson Papers, 1775-2008 (bulk 1964-2001)

Title: Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson Papers, 1775-2008 (bulk 1964-2001)

White folklorists Daniel W. Patterson (1928- ) and Beverly Bush Patterson study North Carolina folk life, southern traditional and religious folk music, Shaker art and music, and southern religious music. The Pattersons have often collaborated in their work and research, including work as consultants with Tom Davenport on his folklife films and Folkstreams project and website for streaming folklife documentary films; with Jim Peacock and Ruel Tyson on the World and Identity Primitive Baptist collection; and on the Index of Selected Folk Recordings Project. The collection includes letters, subject files, films, photographs and slides of folk musicians and folk traditions, audio recordings and moving images about folklore topics, and other materials involving Daniel and Beverly Patterson, independent filmmaker Tom Davenport, and others, including Bobby McMillon working together or independently to produce films, books, and other materials about life in the mountains; Sacred Harp singing; musical traditions of the Primitive Baptist churches in North Carolina and New York; the Shakers, including interviews with Shakers and field recordings of Shaker music and songs; the legend of Frankie Silver; folk music and folklore; and other topics. SFC material traces its history from 1960s folk archive, through the acquisition of the John Edwards Memorial Collection in 1983, and the opening of the SFC in 1989 at the Sounds of the South conference. There are also student papers that were written by Daniel Patterson's students in the Curriculum in Folklore. Correspondents include folklorist and writer Archie Green; writer D. K. Wilgus and wife Eleanor R. Long Wilgus; Ralph Steele Boggs, founder of the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC in 1939; professor Cecelia Conway; publisher Hugh McGraw; folklorist Bobby McMillon; archaeologist Stanley South; novelist Russell Banks; composer Thomas N. Rice; blues collector and record producer Peter B. Lowry; and professor John Garst. Some materials relate to religious tunebook compilers, including John G. McCurry, who wrote a shape-note songbook in 1855 that Patterson and Garst republished in 1973. Subject files contain materials about religious songs; religious groups and movements such as the Primitive Baptists; music styles; religious tunebooks; and many other topics. Also included are hundreds of photographs by Patterson created while doing research for The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry, published by UNC Press in 2012.

ArchivalResource: 53 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 7300 items)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20026/ View