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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Ken Kenkel Collection #20082, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Encoded by: Anne Wells, April 2016

Archival processing of the Ken Kenkel Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Ballads, English--North Carolina.
• Banjo music.
• Dulcimer music.
• Fiddle tunes--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Kenkel, Kenneth Russell.
• McMillon, Bobby.
• Musicians--North Carolina--Interviews.
• Old-time music--North Carolina.
• Oral history.
• Perry, Virginia Sykes.
• Proffitt, Frank, Jr., 1946-2005.
• Shaw, Lauchlin, 1912-2000.
• Songs, English--North Carolina.
• Storytelling--North Carolina.
• Vernacular architecture--North Carolina.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

Kenneth (Ken) Russell Kenkel was a former graduate student of folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his master's thesis, titled "Frank Proffitt, Jr., and Bobby McMillon: traditional artists in the public eye," in 1986.

The Ken Kenkel Collection consists of 14 open reel interviews and recorded performances created and compiled by Kenneth (Ken) Russell Kenkel for his 1986 master's thesis in folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection includes an interview with Bobby McMillon, Anglo-American singer and storyteller, of Lenoir, N.C., about his traditional music and storytelling; an interview with Virginia Sykes Perry, Anglo-American of Orange County, N.C., about the folk house (I-house) she grew up in; a recording of Lauchlin Shaw, Anglo-American old-time fiddler, of Harnett County, N.C., playing old-time fiddle with an accompanying string band for the radio broadcast-CCTV Folklife Radio Series; a recording of a live concert of Frank Proffitt, Jr., Anglo-American singer and musician, of Morganton, N.C., playing old- time music on the banjo and dulcimer and singing; and interviews with Proffitt about his musicianship. Copies of Kenkel's thesis, titled, "Frank Proffitt, Jr., and Bobby McMillon: traditional artists in the public eye," reside at the Davis Library and within the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill.

• Audiotapes (FT-20082/1549-1553, FT-20082/1754-1762)
• Field tape notes (Folders 613-614, and 649 within the Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes Collection #30025)