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[Identification of item], in the Doug DeNatale Collection of Oral Histories #20078, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2019

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2019

Archival processing of the Doug DeNatale Collection of Oral Histories was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Bynum (N.C.)--History.
• Bynum (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• DeNatale, Douglas.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Folklore--North Carolina.
• Musicians--North Carolina--Interviews.
• North Carolina--Mill villages.
• Old-time music--North Carolina.
• Shaw, Lauchlin, 1912-2000.
• Shaw, Malcolm (Storyteller)
• Storytellers--North Carolina--Interviews.
• Storytelling--North Carolina.
• Tales--North Carolina.
• Textile factories--North Carolina--Bynum.
• Textile industry--North Carolina--Bynum.
• Textile workers--North Carolina--Bynum--Interviews.

• DeNatale, Douglas (1986). Bynum : the coming of mill village life to a North Carolina county. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Davis Library, University of Pennsylvania Folklife Thesis, C971.19 D39b.
• Southern Oral History Program Collection, Series H: Piedmont Industrialization (#04007H)

Douglas DeNatale is a white folklorist and arts administrator who teaches at Boston University Metropolitin College. He received his masters in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his is Ph.D. in folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the mill village life of Bynum, N.C. Formerly, Dr. DeNatale was director of the Lowell Folklife Project at the Library of Congress and director of the oral history and folklife program and collections at the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum. Trained as an ethnographer, DeNatale has overseen collaborative arts research projects for the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Library of Congress. He conducted oral histories for the Lowell National Historic Park, the Southern Oral History Program, and the J. Alden Weir National Historic Site, and curated exhibitions for the McKissick Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Biographical information courtesy of Boston University Metropolitin College.

Open reel audio recordings of oral history interviews compiled by white folklorist and arts administrator, Douglas DeNatale. The recordings feature interviews with white storyteller, Malcolm Shaw, and Lauchlin Shawwhite, farmer and old-time musician, from Spring Lake, N.C., about their family, persons of Scottish heritage in North Carolina, and Lauchlin Shaw's music. The collection also includes dubs of oral history interviews that DeNatale conducted with residents and former textile workers of New Bern, N.C. DeNatale originally conducted these interviews with textile workers, mothers, and traditional musicians of Bynum, N.C., for the Southern Oral History program as part of a study of the industrialization of the Carolina Piedmont. Additionally, the collection contains dubs of local ballads and songs compiled by DeNatale from the Blue Ridge Institute Archives at Ferrum College, as well as documentation related to the recordings found in the collection, including a tape index and select transcripts, created by DeNatale and former SFC staff.

• Audiotapes (FT-1161-1177, FT-1258-1260)