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

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

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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.

10 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7179826

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Joyner, Charles W., 1947-

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Hinson, Glenn

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Anthropology professor Glenn Hinson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has focused this research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American communities. From the description of Glenn Hinson collection of gospel music posters, 1984-2004. WorldCat record id: 244305692 ...

M.C. Power Lords (Musical group)

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Curriculum in Folklore

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Holloway, Fris.

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Matthews, Holly.

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Holeman, John Dee, performer.

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Williams, Horace, 1808-1872

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Dance, Daryl Cumber

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Educator Daryl Cumber Dance was born on January 17, 1938 in Richmond, Virginia to elementary school teacher Veronica Bell Cumber and entrepreneur Allen Cumber. Dance graduated from Ruthville High School in Ruthville, Virginia; and went on to earn her A.B. degree in English in 1957, and her M.A. degree in English in 1963, both from Virginia State College, now Virginia State University. She received her Ph.D. degree in English from the University of Virginia in 1971.Dance was hired as an English t...

Street Justice (Dance group)

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