Collection, 1973-1975.

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Collection, 1973-1975.

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Performances and interviews with African American blues and pre- blues secular musicians from North Carolina. Music performed includes blues, old-time songs and tunes, boogie-woogie, and gospel songs, played on banjo, guitar and piano. Also included are an interview with Guy B. Johnson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sociologist who studied African American musical traditions; interviews with the Chapel Hillbillies, a black string band in the 1920s and 1930s; a re-recording of Primitive Baptist singing by Elder Golden Harris and others, ca. 1932; and performances by Anglo-American fiddler and hammered dulcimer player Virgil Craven (1902-1980). Performers include Jamie Alston, Wilbert Atwater, Pernell Charity, George Letlow, Arthur Lyons, Lesley Riddle, Dink Roberts, John Snipes, Leo Strowd, Joe Thompson (1918- ), Odell Thompson (1911- ), Willy Trice (1910-1976), and Clarence Tross (1884-1977).

31 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Strowd, Leo.

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Johnson, Guy Benton, 1901-1991

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Sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1972. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122513568 Educator; sociologist. From the description of Reminiscences of Guy Benton Johnson : oral history, 1988. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86147654 Guy Benton Johnson was one of the original research assistants at the Institute for Research in Social Sc...

Trice, Willy, 1910-1976.

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Thompson, Joe, 1918-2012

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Roberts, Dink, 1894-1989

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Riddle, Lesley

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Chapel Hillbillies (Musical group)

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Thompson, Odell, 1911-1994

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Tross, Clarence, 1884-1977

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Lyons, Arthur

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Letlow, George E., 1925-

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Alston, Jamie

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Harris, Golden P. (Golden Pierce), 1897-1964

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Atwater, Wilbert

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Charity, Pernell

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Craven, Virgil, 1902-1980

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Lornell, Kip, 1953-...

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Christopher "Kip" Lornell and Charles Stephenson are the authors of the book, The beat: go-go's fusion of funk and hip-hop (2001). Lornell is an ethnomusicologist, and a professor in The George Washington University's Department of Music. Stephenson is a cultural and political activist in Washington, D.C., and a strong advocate for go-go music. He was the manager of the go-go group Experience Unlimited and works as an associate in the management consulting firm of Dellums & Associates. ...

Primitive Baptists

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Snipes, John

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