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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bryson Strauss Collection #20362, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Bryson Strauss, of Los Angeles, Calif., in July 2002 (Acc. 99283) and November 2002 (Acc. 99364).

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: Anne Wells, February 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, February 2017

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

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.

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• Alternative country music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Alternative rock music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Artists--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Merritt, Tift.
• Music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Strauss, Bryson.
• Trailer Bride (Musical group)
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Curriculum in Folklore.

• Classic Sounds of the South Collection (#20357)
• Tift Merritt Collection (#20500)

Bryson Strauss is a curator and museum professional who specializes in folk and traditional arts. Strauss graduated from the Curriculum of Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2001, and from 2001 to 2003 worked as an Assistant Curator for the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles, Calif.

The Bryson Strauss Collection consists of live audio and video recordings, 2000, of North Carolina based alternative-country bands, Tift Merritt and the Carbines and Trailer Bride. Compiled by Bryson Strauss, the recordings were made by Aaron Taylor at the Historic Playmakers Theatre in Chapel Hill, N.C. The performances were part of the first annual Classic Sounds of the South concert series sponsored by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Curriculum in Folklore. Recordings are on Digital Audio Tape (DAT) and MiniDV.

• Digital Audio Tapes (DAT-20362/170, DAT-20362/628)
• Videotape (VT-20362/1-3)