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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bebo White Collection #20544, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Bebo White, of San Francisco, Calif., in June 2017 (Acc. 103084), July 2018 (Acc. 103395), and November 2018 (Acc. 103483).

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Processed by: Anne Wells, November 2017; Nancy Kaiser, September 2018

Encoded by: Anne Wells, November 2017

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, March 2019; Anne Wells, Clare Carlson, and Jessica Venlet, October 2019

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

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• Baez, Joan.
• Cox, Fred E. (Jug band scholar)
• Dylan, Bob, 1941-
• Folk music--United States.
• Jug band music.
• Jug bands.
• Singers--United States--interviews.
• White, Bebo, 1945-

Bebo White is a white computer scientist and jug band musician living in San Francisco, Calif. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in physics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Master's degree in physics from San Jose State University. Bebo White is departmental associate emeritus at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University’s basic energy science and high-energy physics laboratory. In his spare time, White has played in various jug bands. While a student at UNC, he played banjo in Bebo's Bunkom Jug Jumpers, and while working at SLAC, formed the Grinnin' Dawgs Jug Band with his SLAC colleagues, Alan Spragens and Bruce Erickson. White, who has been involved with the California Jug Band Association, now plays in the The Sada Springs Jug Band, formerly known as the Tarantulas Jug Band.

The Bebo White Collection consists chiefly of materials related to the history of jug band music and the jug band music scene of northern and southern California, including the California Jug Band Association. Materials compiled by Bebo White, a white computer scientist, jug band musician, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alum, include correspondence with jug band scholar, Fred E. Cox; jug band subject files and other research on jug bands, including Chapel Hill jug bands; small print publications; and publicity ephemera for jug bands, jug band festivals, and other events, including the San Francisco Jug Band Festival. Photographs include prints of Bebo White's college band, Bebo's Bunkom Jug Jumpers, and the Tarantualas Jug Band, as well as reproductions of historical jug bands from the 1920s and 1930s and digital photographs of live jug band performances and rehearsals. Also included are a T-shirt for the Perch Creek Family Jug Band and an open reel sound recording, 1965, featuring an interview conducted by White with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in Raleigh, N.C., and an autographed color snapshot photograph from the session.

• Audiotape (FT-20544/1)
• Image Folders (PF-20544/1-7)
• Oversize Papers (OPF-20544/1-2)
• T-shirt (OB-20544/1)