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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Glenn Hinson Collection of Gospel Music Posters #20045, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Recieved from Glenn Hinson.

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• African American musicians--North Carolina.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Music.
• Gospel music--North Carolina.
• Gospel music--Southern States.
• Gospel musicians--North Carolina.
• Gospel musicians--Southern States.
• Hinson, Glenn.
• Music--Posters.
• North Carolina--Songs and music.
• Posters.
• Southern States--Songs and music.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Faculty.

Anthropology professor Glenn Hinson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has focused this research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American communities.

Glenn Hinson, a white professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has focused this research on the music, language, and belief systems of African American communities. The collection contains posters advertising gospel music performances in the Triangle area of North Carolina (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill). There are also recordings of interviews and musical performances by Markham Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Peace Missionary Baptist Church, Mt. Carmel Baptist Church, Wake Baptist Grove Church, First Cosmopolitan Baptist Church, North Carolina A&T State University marching band, Sound Machine, Kappa Alpa Psi, Alpha Kappa Alpha, and others, as well as step competition in Raleigh, N.C., country line dancing in Durham, N.C., and hollerin' at Spivey's Corner, N.C.

Videotapes (VT-20045/1-38)

Oversize papers (XOP-20045/1-6, OP-20045/1-3, R-20045/1)