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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the North Carolina Folklife Media Project Collection #20106, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Brett Sutton in July 1988 (Acc. 102538).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Encoded by: Anne Wells, March 2016

Updated by: Anne Wells, September 2021

Archival processing of the North Carolina Folklife Media Project Collection 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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• African Americans--North Carolina--Music.
• Baker, Etta, 1913-2006.
• Barrow, Garry Warren.
• Blues (Music)--North Carolina.
• Clog dancing--North Carolina.
• Conway, Cecelia.
• Dixon, Dorsey, 1897-1968.
• Fiddle tunes--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Golden Echoes (Musical group)
• Gospel music--North Carolina.
• Henry, Big Boy.
• Hinton, Algia Mae, 1929-
• Joines, John E.
• Mansfield, W. T.
• Mason, Worth.
• North Carolina Folklife Media Project.
• Rankin, Tom.
• Rochelle, Ike.
• Storytelling--North Carolina.
• Sutton, Brett
• Tales--North Carolina.
• Textile workers--North Carolina.
• Tullos, Allen, 1950-
• Willard, Otho.

• Cecelia Conway Collection (#20033)
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025
• WUNC Records, 1929-2004 (#40278)

The North Carolina Folklife Media Project was a National Endowment for the Arts funded media project directed by folklorist Cecelia (Cece) Conway from the years 1982-1983. As project director, Conway headed the production of North Carolina Traditions, an 8-part radio series featuring North Carolina based musicians that aired on WUNC, the flagship National Public Radio station for the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. Producers for the radio program included Garry Barrow, Cece Conway, Della Coulter, Bill Mansfield, Michael Matross, Tom Rankin, Brett Sutton, and Allen Tullos, while the technical director for the series was Brett Sutton. Along with the radio series, the grant-funded media project also included the production of a photo essay.

The North Carolina Folklife Media Project Collection contains radio programs and associated field recordings, 1982-1983, produced by the North Carolina Folklife Media Project, a National Endowment for the Arts funded media project directed by Cecelia (Cece) Conway, a white folklorist and professor at Appalachian State University. As project director, Conway headed the production of North Carolina Traditions, an 8-part radio series featuring North Carolina based musicians that aired on WUNC, the flagship National Public Radio station for the Research Triangle area of North Carolina. The collection contains master recordings, 1982-1983, of these radio programs produced by the grant funded project. The North Carolina Traditions radio programs feature such artists as Etta Baker, an African American Piedmont blues guitarist from Caldwell County, N.C.; Ike Rochelle, a traditional white fiddler, Worth Mason, a white singer and accordion player, and Otha Willard, a white fiddler, all from the coastal region of N.C.; Dorsey Dixon (1897-1968), a white singer and composer of textile and other songs from Richmond County; the Golden Echoes, an African American gospel quartet of Granville County; Big Boy Henry (1921- ), an African American blues guitarist and singer from Beaufort County, N.C.; Algia Mae Hinton, an African American blues singer and guitarist and buck dancer from Johnston County, N.C.; and John ("Frail") Joines (1914- ), a white traditional storyteller from Brushy Mountain, Wilkes County. The collection also includes field recordings, 1983, of Algia Mae Hinton that were used as source material for the North Carolina Traditions radio program, " Algia Mae Hinton: Blues Woman of Zebulon". Collection recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio.

• Audiotapes (FT-3408-3417, FT-6110-6114)
• Field Notes (Folder 811A), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025