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[Identification of item], in the Molly Stouten Collection #20260, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Purchased from and donated by Molly Stouten, January 1996.

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• Acuff, Charlie, 1919-
• Anderson, Virgil, 1902-
• Appalachian Region, Southern--Songs and music.
• Artists' books.
• Ballads.
• Cumberland Mountains--Social life and customs.
• Davenport, Clyde, 1921-
• Doss, John.
• Doss, Merta.
• Fentress County (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Fiddling--Kentucky.
• Fiddling--Tennessee.
• Folk music--Kentucky.
• Folk music--Tennessee.
• Folk singers--Kentucky.
• Folk singers--Tennessee.
• Folk songs--Kentucky.
• Folk songs--Tennessee.
• Jamestown (Tenn.)--Social life and customs.
• Monticello (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• Musicians--Kentucky.
• Musicians--Tennessee.
• Stouten, Molly.
• Troxell, Clyde, 1911-
• Troxell, Ralph.
• Winningham, Nancy Hicks.

An artist, art educator, and musician, Molly Stouten was born in Buffalo, N.Y. She received a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen in 1975, teaching certification from Nazareth College of Rochester, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. Since 1985, Stouten has taught art to all grade levels in New Hampshire, Vermont, and North Carolina. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she began playing traditional Appalachian string band music in 1972 and was a founding member of the Thompkins County Horse Flies string band. She has also been a member of the Swamp Root string band of Rochester, N.Y., and the Hushpuppies in North Carolina. In 1992, Stouten traveled to the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky for musical research. She relocated to Greensboro, N.C., in 1997. She teaches art at the Canterbury School, Wake Forest University, and Guilford College.

The collection contains a handmade book by Molly Stouten illustrating the traditional folk ballad "Omie Wise" and 23 field recordings of traditional Appalachian music. One of 15 of its kind, the book includes eleven intaglio prints with the text of the ballad set in linotype. Also included are slides and other materials relating to the book. The field recordings are from several visits and a 1992 residency Stouten did in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. They document musicians, including fiddlers and traditional singers, mostly from Jamestown, Tenn.; Monticello, Ky.; and Fentress County, Tenn. Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport is prominently featured. Also appearing on the audio recordings are John Doss, Marta Doss, Nancy Hicks Winningham, Charlie Acuff, Clyde Troxell, Ralph Troxell, and Virgil Anderson.

Audiocassettes (FS-2163-2184).