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Field recordings and dubs of commercial recordings collected by folklorist and labor historian Archie Green. The tapes include interviews with Anglo-American singers and activists such as Aunt Molly Jackson and Sarah Ogan Gunning of Knox Co., Ky.; Anglo-American old-time and early country musicians Buell Kazee of Magoffin Co., Ky., Bradley Kincaide of Kentucky, and Tony Alderman; Howard and Dorsey Dixon, who sang and composed textile songs while living and working in Rockingham Co., N.C.; Roy Harvey; the New Lost City Ramblers; Ernest Stoneman; and David McCarn of North Carolina, who also composed and sang textile songs; and labor union members Welby Toomey and John Waddell. The collection also contains concert recordings from the University of Illinois Campus Folk Song Club, featuring performers such as Anglo-American cowboy singer Glenn Ohrlin; Anglo- American singer Utah Phillips; Anglo-American banjo player Hobart Smith; Irish piper and storyteller Seamus Ennis; and many others; and dubs of commercial recordings, primarily 78 rpms, of artists and songs pertinent to Green's research.

450 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Toomey, Welby.

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New Lost City Ramblers.

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Dixon, Dorsey, 1897-1968

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Dixon, Howard, 1903-1961

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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...

Smith, Hobart, 1897-1965

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Alderman, Tony, 1900-1978

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Ohrlin, Glenn, 1926-

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Jackson, Aunt Molly

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Kincaid, Bradley

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A Garrard County, Kentucky, native, Bradley Kincaid was a 1921 graduate of Berea College Academy (high school). Work for the YMCA after leaving Berea led to his attending Chicago's YMCA College (now George Williams College). An interest in collecting folk songs fostered at Berea and singing with a college quartet in Chicago led to guest appearances on the WLS National Barn Dance. His singing style and repertoire of traditional songs were so well received that in 1928 he became a regular performe...

Harvey, Roy

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Kazee, Buell, 1900-1976

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Gunning, Sarah Ogan, 1910-1983

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Stoneman, Ernest V.

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Waddell, John, 1878-1949

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Phillips, Utah

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Ennis, SeĢamus

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McCarn, Dave, 1905-1964

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