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Sounds of the South a report and selected papers from a Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music, held in Chapel Hill, April 6-8, 1989, to celebrate the opening of the Southern Folklife Collection with the John Edwards Memorial Collection in the Manuscripts Department of the Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina edited by Daniel W. Patterson

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Author:
Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music (1989 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)  Search this
Patterson, Daniel W (Daniel Watkins) 1928-  Search this
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library Southern Folklife Collection  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 219 pages illustrations 22 cm
Type:
Congresses
Congrès
Congress
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès
Place:
Southern States
États-Unis (Sud)
États-Unis
États-Unis (sud)
Date:
1991
Contents:
Preface/Michael T. Case, George M. Holt, and Daniel W. Patterson -- Introduction/Daniel W. Patterson -- Part 1: Personal and Historical Perspectives. Evaluating Our Work and Ourselves/Bess Lomax Hawes -- Country Music and the Academy: A Thirty-Year Professional Odyssey/Bill C. Malone -- Oversease Blues: Europeans and the Blues/Paul Oliver -- Looking for Henry Reed:Confessions of a Revivalist/Thomas Carter -- Research Approaches to Black Gospel Quartets/Ray Funk -- Part 2: Archival Preservation of Souther Music. The John Edwards Memorial Foundation: Its History and Significance/Norm Cohen -- The History of the Southern Folklife Collection: The Era of Surprise/Daniel W. Patterson -- The History of the Southern Folklife Collection: Recent Developments: Michael T. Casey -- Who's Got What: A Survey of Southern Traditional Music in Public Repositories/Walter C. West and Michael T. Casey -- The Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore: An Experiment in Guerrilla Academics/Barry Ancelot -- Part 3: Issues for the Future. Life as We Knew It/Allen Tullos -- Turning Inward and Outward: Retrospective and Prospective Considerations in the Recording of Vernacular Music in the South/David E. Whisnant -- Afterword: "Our Music": Exit Ahead/Archie Green
Topic:
Folk music  Search this
Popular music  Search this
Popular music--Southern States--History and criticism  Search this
Musique populaire  Search this
Musique traditionnelle--Histoire et critique  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_471268