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Size | 13 items |
Abstract | The David E. Whisnant Collection consists of audio recordings and other materials compiled by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus of English, David E. Whisnant. The recordings comprise of live performances, interviews, and dubbed radio recordings. Artists or interviewees featured on the recordings include the Blue Sky Boys, Bill Bolick, Garland Bolick, the Burke Family Gospel Singers, and Norman Edmonds, among others. Other materials found in the collection include a publicity photograph of D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces and student papers from David E. Whisnant's fall 1991 course, The Politics of Country Music, at UNC-Chapel Hill. |
Creator | Whisnant, David E., 1938- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Anne Wells, November 2016
Archival processing of the David E. Whisnant Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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David Eugene Whisnant is an author and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Whisnant is a native of Asheville, N.C. He received a B.S. from Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and an M.S.W. from UNC-Chapel Hill. His major publications include James Boyd (1972), Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power and Planning in Appalachia (1981; rev. ed. 1994), All That Is Native and Fine: The Politics of Culture in an American Region (1983), and Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua (1995).
Back to TopThe David E. Whisnant Collection consists of audio recordings and other materials compiled by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Professor Emeritus of English, David E. Whisnant. The recordings, 1950s-1978, are on audiocassette and 1/4" open reel audio and comprise of live performances, interviews, and dubbed radio recordings. Artists or interviewees featured on the recordings include the Blue Sky Boys, Bill Bolick, Garland Bolick, the Burke Family Gospel Singers, and Norman Edmonds, among others. Other materials found in the collection include a publicity photograph, circa 1985, of D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces and student papers, 1991, from David E. Whisnant's fall 1991 course, The Politics of Country Music, at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Back to TopArrangement: Alphabetical.
Audio recordings compiled by David E. Whisnant. Also includes a tape log (folder 1) that corresponds to the Norman Edmonds, "The Old Timer's Program" radio show recording (FT-20071/15514).
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/1178 |
Blue Sky Boys performance at Carleton Haney's Camp Springs Bluegrass Festival, Camp Springs, N.C., 25 May 1974Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/1179 |
Blue Sky Boys performance at UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif., 14-16 May 1965Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/461 |
Bill Bolick response to biographical essay by David Whisnant, 22 August 1976Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/16618 |
Bill Bolick interview conducted by David Whisnant, Greensboro, N.C., 26 January 1974Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/518 |
Garland Bolick interview, 31 January 1974Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/560 |
Burke Family anniversary, Millington, Md., 16 July 1978Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/561 |
Burke Family singing, Millington, Md., 16 July 1978Audiocassette |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20071/15514 |
Norman Edmonds, "The Old Timer's Program" radio show, Galax, Va., early 1950s1/4" Open Reel Audio 7" reel ; 4-tracks Features Uncle Norman Edmonds on fiddle, Rufus Berry Queensberry on banjo, and John and Paul Edmonds on guitars. Broadcast from Galax, Va. Includes Higgins Oil ads. Tape log found inside original container now resides in folder 1. |
Folder 1 |
Tape log: FT-20071/15514 |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20071/1177 |
North Carolina Folklife Festival, Duke University, 1974Audiocassette |
A publicity photograph of D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces and 2 student papers for David Whisnant's fall 1991 course, The Politics of Country Music, at UNC. Papers include Jill Hemming's "Saddlesore and Lonely: Elvis Costello's 'Almost Blue'" and David Nealon's "On the Cusp of Progress: Bela Lam and His Greene County Singers; The Transformation of an Esthetic."
Image Folder PF-20071/1 |
Photograph: D.L. Menard and the Louisiana Aces, circa 1985 |
Folder 2 |
Student papers, 1991 |