Amy Davis Collection, 1997

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Amy Davis Collection, 1997

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/d/Davis,Amy.html

Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and, in 1998, received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. She worked in the Soutern Folklife Collection, 1999-2001. The collection includes field recordings on audio cassette and interviews from Amy Davis's 1997 Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented the musical traditions of worship communities on the Carteret County, N.C., island. The project featured musicians, church leaders, and congregants from Wesleyan, Holiness, Methodist, Mormon, and Baptist churches. Audio cassettes contain interviews with Harkers Island singers and musicians and recordings of church services and musical performances at churches, the Sea Level Rest Home, and the homes of musicians. While the bulk of the collection documents sacred musical traditions, tapes of James and Tommy Rose contain performances of secular country music, including songs by Hank Williams and Gene Autry. Papers include field notes on interviews conducted and services visited; transctipts of interviews; an index of songs recorded; contact sheets for photographs related to the project; and short descriptions of photograph contents. Field notes are arranged by church and include descriptions of recording situations and some biographical information on the performers. Photographs document members of Harkers Island congregations; church services and social functions; church interiors and exteriors; performances by church musicians and singers; Clinton Nelson's recording studio; and Harkers Island scenes, including Dora Willis's soft shell crab tanks and of Alex Willis's boatworks.

About 90 items; 1.0

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6626343

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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