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Master recordings of seven documentary programs produced for the N.C. Folklife Media Project, as well as a few additioal reels of associated materials. The programs in the series include North Carolina artists such as Etta Baker, a nationally-recognized African-American Piedmont blues guitarist from Caldwell County, N.C.; traditional Anglo-American fiddler Ike Rochelle, singer and accordion player Worth Mason, and fiddler Otha Willard, all from the coastal region of N.C.; Dorsey Dixon (1897-1968), Anglo-American singer and composer of textile and other songs from Richoond County; African-American gospel quartet the Golden Echoes of Granville County; Big Boy Henry (1921- ), African-American blues guitarist and singer from Beaufort County; Algia Mae Hinton (1929- ), African-American blues singer and guitarist and buck dancer from Johnston County; and John ("Frail") Joines (1914- ), Anglo-American traditional storyteller from Brushy Mountain, Wilkes County. The media project was directed by folklorist Cece Conway and Brett Sutton.

10 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hinton, Algia Mae, 1929-

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Folklorist and librarian Brett Sutton was born in 1948 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill. He enrolled in the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, earning a Masters degree in 1976. His thesis project, "The Gospel Hymn, Shaped Notes, and the Black Tradition," focused on African American spiritual folk singing in North Carolina. From the description of Brett Sutton collection, 1974-1975. WorldCat record id: 27188924 Brett Sut...

Henry, Big Boy

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N.C. Folklife Media Project.

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Dixon, Dorsey, 1897-1968

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Joines, John E.

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Willard, Otho.

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Baker, Etta, 1913-2006

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Golden Echoes.

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Mason, Worth.

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Conway, Cecelia

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Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH), an organization founded in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster in spring of 1986 to oppose the opening of Carolina Power and Light2 s Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant in Wake County, N.C. From the guide to the Cecelia Conway Papers, 1983-1987, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Cecelia Conway was a leader in the Coalition for Alte...

Rochelle, Ike.

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