Folkstreams.net collection, 1963-2010.

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Folkstreams.net collection, 1963-2010.

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The Folkstreams.net Collection consists of materials that were made and transferred between 1963 and 2010. There are about 265 film prints, videotapes, digital video discs (DVDs), data digital video discs (data DVDs), and papers that are in various media formats (such as 16mm print film, 16mm workprints, Betacam SP, U-Matic, Digital Betacam, MiniDV, DVDs, and Data DVDs). They were transferred at Colorlab in Maryland and New York to be used for streaming on the website Folkstreams.net. Included among the filmmakers are Bill and Josette Ferris; Barry Dornfield, Tom Rankin and Jeff Titon; Mike Seeger; Pete Seeger and Toshi Seeger; John Winninger, Elaine Lawless and Betsy Peterson; Alan Lomax; Light-Saraf Films; Frank DeCola; Alan Governor; Les Blank; Kim Shelton; Paul Wagner and Steve Zeitlin; Michael Goldman; City Lore: the New York Center for Urban Culture; Elaine Valazquez; John M. Bishop; Stan Woodward; Bess Lomax Hawes; Ferrero Films; Allen Tullos; Joyce Middlebrook, and Tom Davenport. Materials cover a wide range of subjects and locations, including folk life, music, stories, songs, and art; jazz, blues, hip-hop, gospel, country, Irish, Klezmer, Zydeco, and old time music; medicine and minstrel shows, some in the Adirondack Mountains; carnivals; hunting; fishing; crafts; cowboy poetry; Amish culture; African American culture, art, dancing, and singing; mills; ballads; Cajuns; Mississippi Delta; churches; American food and cooking; Gandy dancers; religion; Hispanic culture; Latino and Asian immigrants; dulcimers; Gullah culture; Finnish Americans; shoemakers; rodeos; pottery; singing games; quilting; rattlesnakes; homeless youth; Islenos; motion picture and videotape preservation; the Adironback Mountains; New York City food, styles, culture, immigrants, and festivals; ghost stories; New Orleans, La.; Deep Ellum in Dallas, Tex.; Spivey's Corner, N.C.; factory workers; and Native American folk art. The films are about people such as Alex Moore; Sarah Ogan Gunning; Bill Monroe; Fannie Bell Chapman; Sonny Terry; Mike Seeger; Hamper McBee; Ott Blair; Son Thomas; Prince Albert Hunt; Morgan Sexton; Ray Lum; the Popovich Brothers; Emanuel "Manny" Sayles; Tommie Bass; the Patoka Valley Boys; Howard Finster; Minnie Evans; Lawrence Older; Almeda Riddle; and Skip Armstrong.

ca. 265 items (20.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7911806

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Monroe, Bill, 1911-1996

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Bill Monroe (1911-1984), Anglo-American mandolin player, singer, and songwriter known as the "Father of Bluegrass", from Rosine, Ky.; and his band, the Blue Grass Boys, featuring banjo player Earl Scruggs of Flint Hill, N.C. From the description of John Edwards memorial collection, 1940s. WorldCat record id: 27189199 Pioneer bluegrass performer. Born September 13, 1911. Died September 9, 1996. Full name: William Smith Monroe. Career active 1920s-1990s. Known as the Father of...

Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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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...

Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014

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Pete Seeger (1919-2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. As a member of the Weavers, Seeger was often heard on the radio in the early 1950s, most notably on their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene". In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes. A prolific songwriter, his best-known songs include "Where Have ...

Patterson, Betsy

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Armstrong, Skip.

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Terry, Sonny

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Rankin, Tom

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Tom Rankin is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, folklorist, professor of art and documentary studies, and Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC. From the description of Tom Rankin Photographs, 1980-2008. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 774919262 ...

Thomas, James "Sonny Ford."

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Chapman, Fannie Bell

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Winninger, John

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Ferris, William R.

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William R. Ferris (1942- ), born and raised in Vicksburg, Miss., is an author, folklorist, filmmaker, professor, photographer, administrator, and scholar chiefly working in the areas of African American and southern culture. Among his many published works is the "Encyclopedia of Southern Culture," which he co-edited with Charles Reagan Wilson. From the description of William R. Ferris collection, 1919s-2003 (Subjects A-K). WorldCat record id: 56931433 From the description of...

Evans, Minnie, 1892-1987

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McBee, Hamper, 1931-

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Lawless, Elaine J.

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Finster, Howard, 1916-2001

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Self-taught visionary artist; Georgia. From the description of Howard Finster papers, 1932-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502741 From the description of Howard Finster illustrated letter and cards, [ca. 1981]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122546159 The Reverend Howard Finster emerged from the rural Appalachian culture of northeast Alabama and northwest Georgia to become one of America's most important creative personalities in the last quarter of the twen...

Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009

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Anglo-American early country musician Ernest V. Stoneman of Virginia; fiddler Charlie Bowman, originally from Tennessee; guitarist Sam McGee of Franklin, Tenn.; early country and cowboy musician Edward L. Crain of Texas; banjo player Doc Walsh, member of the Carolina Tar Heels; harmonica player Garley Foster; fiddler Alonza Elvis ("Tony") Alderman of Virginia; arranger Irene Spain; talent scout Polk Brockman; early country musician Wilber Ball of Kentucky; Blake Gardner and Bill Knapke; early co...

Bass, A. L. Tommie

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Gunning, Sarah Ogan, 1910-1983

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Older, Lawrence

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Titon, Jeff Todd, 1943-

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Pottery, American.

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Davenport, Mimi

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Riddle, Almeda

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Lum, Ray, 1891-1976

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Popovich Brothers

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Sexton, Morgan, 1911-

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Hunt, Prince Albert, 1901-1931

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Folkstreams.net.

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Folkstreams.net is an Internet website designed to disseminate documentary films about American folk culture. Produced by independent filmmakers, these films give voice to the arts and experience of diverse American groups. Folkstreams.net was started in 2000 by independent filmmaker and distributor Tom Davenport in collaboration with his wife Miriam Davenport; folklorist Daniel Patterson; and a committee of filmmakers, scholars, and computer specialists. From the description of Folk...

Seeger, Toshi

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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 ...

Blank, Lester C.

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