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Recordings from the four film projects undertaken by independent filmmaker Tom Davenport with the UNC-CH Curriculum in Folklore. These recordings were made during the shooting of, and provide the sound tracks for, the following films: "Peg Leg Sam," about Arthur Jackson (1911-1977), an African-American musician, tale teller, and medicine show performer; "The Shakers, " exploring the remaining Shaker communities in New Hampshire and Maine; "Being a Joines, " about the life of John Joines, a storyteller from Wilkes County, N.C.; and "A Singing Stream, " which documents a gospel music singing family from Creedmoor, N.C. including the gospel group The Golden Echoes. The collection includes both extensive interviews and oral histories as well as musical and narrative performances.

400 sound recordings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241452

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Joines, John E.

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Davenport, Tom

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Tom Davenport is an independent filmmaker and film distributor living in Delaplane, Va. He began work in film with documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock and Don Pennebacker in New York and made his first independent film in 1969. In 1970, he returned to rural Virginia and started an independent film company with his wife Mimi Davenport as co-producer and designer. From the description of Tom Davenport papers, 1973-1995. WorldCat record id: 257729971 ...

Jackson, Arthur, 1911-1977

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Golden Echoes.

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