Tullos, Allen, 1950-

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Dates:
Birth 1950

Biographical notes:

Allen Tullos graduated in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters degree in folklore; he also earned a Ph. D. in American Studies from Yale University. His research interests have centered on American popular culture, the South, cultural geography, biography, and documentary forms.

From the description of Allen Tullos collection, 1973-1985. WorldCat record id: 56597126

Allen Tullos (1950- ) graduated in 1976 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Masters degree in folklore. He also earned a Ph.D. in American studies at Yale University and a B.A. in English from the University of Alabama. His research interests have centered on American popular culture, the South, cultural geography, biography, and documentary forms. Tullos's folklore thesis, entitled, Tommie Bass: a Life in the Ridge and Valley Country, explores the life and lore of a north Alabama herbalist and humorist.

Tullos, associate professor at Emory University in the American Studies program at the Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, has published Habits of Industry (University of North Carolina, 1989), winner of the Charles Sydnor Award of the Southern Historical Association; Alabama Bound, Unbound in Christenberry Reconstruction: The Art of William Christenberry (Center for Creative Photography, 1996); and numerous articles in The Nation, Mother Jones, the New York Times, Southern Exposure, and the Virginia Quarterly Review . He was the co-producer and sound recordist for three films in the American Traditional Culture Series: Born for Hard Luck, Being a Joines, and A Singing Stream . He has also served as editor of Southern Changes, a quarterly journal.

From the guide to the Allen Tullos Collection, 1973-1985, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.)

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Subjects:

  • African Americans
  • Ballads, English
  • Banjo music
  • Cries
  • Festivals
  • Folklorists
  • Folk music
  • Gospel music
  • Guitar music
  • Potters
  • Shape-note singing

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Places:

  • Spivey's Corner (N.C.) (as recorded)
  • Virginia (as recorded)
  • Alabama (as recorded)
  • Appalachian Region, Southern (as recorded)
  • Southern States (as recorded)
  • Madison County (N.C.) (as recorded)
  • North Carolina (as recorded)
  • North Carolina--Spivey's Corner (as recorded)