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Archive Collection, 1989.

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Recordings of the Sounds of the South Conference, held 6-8 April 1989 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, including panel discussions, papers, and addresses on topics related to history and issues in field collecting and recording traditional music, including old-time, bluegrass, gospel, country, conjunto, Cajun, and American Indian music, and the history of the John Edwards Memorial Foundation and the Southern Folklife collection. More than 300 participants included field collectors, record collectors, academic and public folklorists, performing musicians, record producers, librarians, and organizers of folk festivals and tours, such as Anglo-American folklorists Bess Lomas Hawes, Anthony Seeger, William Ivey, Daniel Patterson, Alan Jabbour, Archie Green, country music scholar Bill C. Malone, and blues scholar Paul Oliver. The book "Sounds of the South" was published in 1992 in commemoration and follow-up to the conference, and contains many pertinent essays.

18 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928-

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Patterson was a Duke University student in the late 1940s who roomed with Guy Davenport, Robert Loomis, and Clarence F. Brown. He went on to become a distinguished folklorist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of Daniel Patterson collection of Guy Davenport papers, 1946-1948 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 754846398 Folklorist Daniel W. Patterson (1928- ) was a professor in English and Folklore...

Ivey, William Max

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Director of the Country Music Foundation (CMF), 1971-1998. Born September 6, 1944. As CMF director was responsible for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and its related library, publications, and educational programs. Chairman for the National Endowment for the Arts, 1997-2001. From the description of Oral history interview with William "Bill" Ivey; 1983 July 18; interview conducted by John W. Rumble. 1983 July 18. (Country Music Foundation, Library & Media Center). World...

Jabbour, Alan

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Seeger, Anthony

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Hawes, Bess Lomax, 1921-2009

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Bess Lomax Hawes, Anglo-American folklorist and director of the Folk Arts Program at the National Endowment for the Arts in Washington, D.C. From the description of Archive collection, 1985. WorldCat record id: 27190343 ...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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John Edwards Memorial Foundation

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The John Edwards Memorial Foundation, which operated 1962-1983, was located at the University of California at Los Angeles. The foundation's goal was to promote the study of twentieth-century American folk music. In 1983, the Foundation was dissolved, and a successor organization, the John Edwards Memorial Forum, was established. From the description of John Edwards Memorial Foundation records, 1960-1988 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26661059 The John Edward...

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...

Oliver, Paul M.

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Green, Archie

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Archie Green, American folklorist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas, b. 6-29-1917. From the description of [The Archie Green Collection at the Rare Book Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.] [1876?]-1987. WorldCat record id: 156850892 Anglo-American singer Sarah Ogan Gunning (1910-1983) from Knox County, Ky., known for her performances of traditional ballads and songs, as well as her own compositions on the poverty and social conditi...