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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 Whisnant Collection #20071-z, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from David E. Whisnant circa 1990-1992 (Acc. 102676), June 2000 (Acc. 098667), and April 2015 (Acc. 102204).

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.

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.

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.

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• Blue Sky Boys.
• Bolick, Bill.
• Bolick, Garland, 1891-
• Burke Family (Gospel group)
• Country music.
• Edmonds, Norman.
• Fiddle tunes.
• Folk music--United States.
• Folk songs, English--United States.
• Gospel music.
• Louisiana Aces (Musical group)
• Menard, D. L.
• Musicians.
• Old-time music.
• Radio programs--United States.
• Whisnant, David E., 1938-

• Archie Green Papers (#20002)
• Bill C. Malone Collection (#20315)
• Sounds of the South Collection (#20115-z)
• David E. Whisnant Papers (#04326)

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).

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, 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.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20071/461, FS-20071/518, FS-20071/560-561, FS-20071/1177-1179, FS-20071/16618)
• Audiotape (FT-20071/15514)