Restrictions to Access

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Restrictions to Use

Patrons must have permission from Duke University's Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library to use and reproduce audio materials.

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 Frank Clyde Brown Collection #20022-z, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Acquisitions information unknown (Acc. 103053).

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, March 2017

Encoded by: Anne Wells, March 2017

Archival processing of the Frank Clyde Brown 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.

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

• Ballads, English--North Carolina.
• Banjo music--North Carolina.
• Brown, Frank Clyde, 1870-1943.
• Dance music--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Folklore--North Carolina.
• North Carolina Folklore Society.
• Old-time music--North Carolina.

• Arthur Palmer Hudson Papers (#04026)
• North Carolina Folklore Society Records (#04388)
• Frank Clyde Brown Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
• Frank Clyde Brown Collection of North Carolina Folk Songs, Library of Congress

Frank Clyde Brown (1870-1943) served as a Professor of English at Trinity College, Duke University, from 1909 until his death. In 1913, Brown co-founded the North Carolina Folklore Society and served as secretary-treasurer of the organization from its inception until his death.

Dubbed field recordings of ballads, banjo music, fiddle tunes, dance music, singing games, songs, and stories, recorded in various locations in North Carolina by folklorist, Duke University professor, and founding member of the North Carolina Folklore Society, Frank Clyde Brown. The audio recordings, 1936-1940 and undated, primarily feature Anglo American folk and old-time music from western North Carolina, including the counties of Avery, Buncombe, Caldwell, Cleveland, Iredell, Watauga, and Wilkes. The recordings found in the collection are access copies on 1/4" open reel audio that were made in 1971 from the original cylinder and disc field recordings held in the Frank Clyde Brown Papers at Duke University.

The collection also contains corresponding documentation, including select tape logs created by SFC staff and a tape index created by Duke University graduate student, Charles Bond, in 1971.

• Audiotapes (FT-20022/205-220)