Restrictions to Access

Use of audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

Access to streaming audio or moving image materials may be restricted to researchers who can authenticate with an ONYEN or who are physically present on campus. For further information about access to streaming audiovisual materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff at Wilsonlibrary@unc.edu

Library use only for digital files found in this collection. Contact wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss access options.

This collection contains unprocessed born-digital materials that are currently not available to researchers. For information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff. Please be advised that preparing unprocessed materials for access can be a lengthy process.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the David Massengill Collection #20530, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David Massengill in October 2016 (Acc. 102666) and September 2018 (Acc. 103298).

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.

Processed by: Anne Wells, September 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, September 2017

Updated by: Anne Wells, March 2019

Archival processing of the David Massengill 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.

• Dulcimer music.
• Folk music--United States.
• Massengill, David.
• Picture books.
• Popular music--United States.

David Massengill is a white American folk singer-songwriter, guitar and Appalachian dulcimer player, and music educator, who toured frequently with long-time friend and fellow songwriter Jack Hardy as the duo, the Folk Brothers, until Hardy's death in 2011. His songs have been covered and recorded by Joan Baez, The Roches, Lucy Kaplansky, Tom Russell, Nanci Griffith and his mentor, Dave Van Ronk. Massengill is also a writer and an illustrator of picture books and pocket-sized children's books.

Audiovisual materials consist primarily of sound recordings, 1977-2012, of studio masters and live performances by Massengill, including masters for Massengill's releases Coming Up For Air (1992) and The Return (1995). Also included is a video recording, 1999, of David Massengill in "My First Kiss" recorded in Bristol, Tenn. Sound recordings are on 2" open reel audio, 1/2" open reel audio, 1/4" open reel audio, audiocassette, digital audio tape (DAT), U-Matic audio tape, and compact disc (CD), while the video recording is on VHS. Papers consist of original manuscripts, poetry, and diary entries by Massengill, promotional headshots of Massengill, and handmade flyers, cards, picture books, and pocket-sized children's books by Massengill.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20530/1-4)
• Audiotapes (FT-20530/1-25)
• Digital Audio Tape (DAT-20530/1)
• Videotape (VT-20530/1)
• Digital Folders (DF-20530/1-6)
• Commercial items have been separated and moved into the SFC General Collection.