Joan Fenton collection, 1952-1978

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Joan Fenton collection, 1952-1978

1952-1978

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20015/

Sound recordings and related documentation. Sound recordings include interviews, songs, and tall tales by artists in the southern roots traditions from North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Louisiana. Fenton's folklore thesis fieldwork about Howard Cotten, an African American tall tale teller in North Carolina, is represented by his songs, anecdotes, and tales about fishing and hunting that were recorded between 1976 and 1978. Also included are recordings from the 1978 John Henry Folk Festival where Hazel Dickens, Viola Clark, the Badgett Sisters, Walter Phelps, Ethel Phelps, Sparky Rucker, Pigmeat Jarrett, and Sweet Honey in the Rock performed. Interviews and sound recordings relating to Jamie Alston, Wilber Atwater, Willie Brooks, Dona Gum, Maggie Hammons, Sherman Hammons, Guy B. Johnson, Everett Lilly, Mitchell "Bea" Lilly, Varise Conner, Phillippe Bruneau, Carl Rutherford, and the Balfa Brothers are included. Also included are interviews with and songs of Charles Williams, a washboard player from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and Nat Reese, a guitarist and blues singer from Princeton, W. Va. Fenton is the primary interviewer on these recordings, some of which were made in performers' homes where she accompanied them on guitar, but there are also a few field tapes done by others, including some with the Reverend Gary Davis in Jamaica, N.Y., 1971-1972 and others done by John Cohen in New York in the 1950s. Documentation of field recordings includes transcription notes from interviews conducted by Fenton and notes compiled from the audio material. Note that artists important in the collection appear as access points in this record.

ca. 1300 items.

eng, Latn

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7687236

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

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Dickens, Hazel, 1925-2011

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Hazel Jane Dickens (1925*-2011) was an American bluegrass singer, songwriter, double bassist and guitarist. Her music was characterized not only by her high, lonesome singing style, but also by her provocative pro-union, feminist songs. Cultural blogger John Pietaro noted that "Dickens didn’t just sing the anthems of labor, she lived them and her place on many a picket line, staring down gunfire and goon squads, embedded her into the cause." The New York Times extolled her as "a clarion-voiced a...

Reese, Nat

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Clark, Viola Jones

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Atwater, Wilbert

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Rutherford, Carl.

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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...

Balfa Brothers

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Williams, C.K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-

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Jarrett, Pigmeat, 1899-1995

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Gum Dona.

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Fenton, Joan, 1951-

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Davis, Gary, 1896-1972

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Gary Davis was an African American blues and gospel musician, sometimes known as "Blind Gary" Davis or "Reverend" Gary Davis....

Rucker, Sparky

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Hammons, Sherman, 1903-1988

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Phelps, Ethel Johnston

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Cohen, John, 1911-....

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Photographer John Cohen was a film assistant to Robert Frank. He was also a member of the music group New Lost City Ramblers, a collector of folk music, and later Professor of Visual Arts at the State University of New York, Purchase. From the description of Pull my daisy [graphic] : promotional photographs and stills from the motion picture. 1959. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 250275082 ...

Lilly, Everett, 1924-2012

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Fenton, Joann

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Folklorist and performer Joan Fenton earned a Masters degree in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981. She is the owner of several stores in Charlottesville, Va., that feature traditional and contemporary handicrafts. From the description of Joan Fenton collection, 1952-1978. WorldCat record id: 55088375 ...

Bruneau, Philippe, 1934-2011

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Conner, Varise.

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Lilly, Mitchell B.

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Badgett Sisters

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Brooks, Willie, 1908-

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Hammons, Maggie.

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Cotten, Howard, 1910-

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Alston, Jamie

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Phelps, Walter G. (Walter Gillespie), 1883-1930

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Sweet Honey in the Rock (Musical group)

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John Henry Folk Festival.

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