Nancy Kalow Collection, 1986-1994

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Nancy Kalow Collection, 1986-1994

1986-1994

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20113/

North Carolina folklorist Nancy Kalow taught documentary video production at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. She receieved an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1982 and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She directed the 1988 documentary and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004, at the University of North Carolina's University Center for International Studies in Chapel Hill. Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco The collection comprises 24 8mm videotapes of various aspects of North Carolina folklife recorded by Kalow between 1987 and 1991. There are videotapes of traditional North Carolina fiddlers that Kalow made in association with traditional music legend and founder of Alice Gerrard as part of a project for the North Carolina Arts Council. These fiddlers include Thomas Burt, Calvin Cole, Bert Dickens, and Enoch Rutherford. There is a series of interviews with and demonstrations of technique by musician Walter Raleigh Babson, which are moderated by traditonal music collector, educator, and practitioner Andy Cahan. There are tapes of performances by African American string band musicians Joe and Odell Thompson, Piedmont blues musicians George Higgs and James Bud Powell, and traditional musician John Rector. There are also tapes documenting a 1987 performance at the UNC Forest Theatre by storyteller Steven Henegar and Uncle Eli's Quilting Bee, an annual event that has taken place in Alamance County since 1931 and which Kalow recorded on 7 April 1988 at Eli Whitney Recreation Center. The Old-Time Herald

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627477

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

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Gerrard, Alice, 1934-

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From the 1950s through the 1990s, collector, folklorist, and traditional music performer Alice Gerrard recorded interviews and performances of many legendary old-time and bluegrass musicians. From the description of Alice Gerrard collection, 1954-2000. WorldCat record id: 213374394 Alice Gerrard has devoted her life to playing and preserving traditional music as a musician, collector, and the founding editor of The Old Time Herald . The daughter ...

Higgs, George, 1930-

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Cahan, Andrew

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Cole, Calvin L.

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Powell, James Bud.

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Henegar, Steven

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Babson, Walter Raleigh, 1900-1987.

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Burt, Thomas, 1900-1987

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Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994

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Dickens, Bert

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Rutherford, Enoch

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Thompson, Joe, 1918-2012

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Uncle Eli's quilting bee.

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Rector, John, fiddler.

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Kalow, Nancy

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North Carolina folklorist Nancy Kalow taught documentary video production at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. She receieved an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1982 and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She directed the 1988 documentary "Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco" and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004, at the University of North Carolina's University Center for International Studies in Chapel Hill. ...