Bill C. Malone Collection, 1950s-2016

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Bill C. Malone Collection, 1950s-2016

1950s-2016

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

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

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

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627828

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

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Armijo, Enrique

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Enrique Armijo is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the Elon University School of Law. Armijo received his B.A. from the University of Florida, and his M.A. and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While at UNC-Chapel Hill, Armijo worked at the student run radio station WXYC. Enrique (Henry) Armijo was born 24 April 1973, and has lived in Gainesville, Fla., Greensboro, N.C., Washington, D.C., Chapel Hill, N.C., and Elon, N.C....

Tower, Wells, 1973-

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Wells Tower (1973- ) is an anthropologist and fiction writer. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tower was raised in the United States, in North Carolina. Tower received his B.A. in anthropology and sociology from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn., and his M.F.A. in fiction writing from the Columbia University School of the Arts, Morningside Heights, Manhattan, N.Y. He is employed at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, and has lived in Chapel Hill, N.C. and Brooklyn...

Hinojosa, Tish

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Tish Hinojosa is a Mexican American musician born in San Antonio, Texas. Her album Culture Swing won the 1992 NAIRD Indie Folk Album of the Year award. From the description of Tish Hinojosa papers, c. 1980s-present. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 519574956 ...

Jones, Carol Elizabeth, 1960-

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Henry, Murphy

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Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011

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Hazel Jane Dickens (1925*-2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced a...

Smith, Betty N.

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Whisnant, David E., 1938-

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David Whisnant is an author and professor in the English Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He gathered the material in this collection in the course of his research on James Boyd and Susan Chester. James Boyd (1888-1944), author, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but spent much of his life in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Three of his five novels, Drums (1925), Marching On (1927), and Long Hunt (1930), are set in North Carolina. Boyd ow...

Malone, Bill C.

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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. From the description of Bill C. Malone collection, 2000. WorldCat record id: 70787493 Bill C. Malone received his Ph.D. in 1965 at the University of Texa...