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[Identification of item], in the Douglas Turner Day Collection of Rising Stars Recordings and Other Material #20077, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2019

Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2019

Archival processing of the Douglas Turner Day Collection of Rising Stars Recordings and Other Material was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic and racial identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual's preference for identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Day, Douglas, 1955-2019.
• Gospel music--Virginia.
• Prayer--Virginia.
• Rising Stars (Musical group)
• Spirituals (Songs)--Virginia.
• Virginia--Religious life and customs.

• Day, Douglas Turner IV. (1991). The Rising Stars at St. Stephen's : an African-American gospel program in central Virginia. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Davis Library, Thesis Folklore 1991 D2735.

Douglas Turner Day IV (1955-2019) was a white folklorist who received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his masters in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his Ph.D. in folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his masters thesis on the "Rising Stars at St. Stephen's: an African American gospel program in central Virginia." During his career, he did extensive fieldwork including field recordings in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Open reel recordings of the Rising Stars of Louisa Anniversary Program, which features a modern African American gospel quartet, the Rising Stars, and members James Sheldon, Jr., African American guitarist of Stevensburg, Va., and John Marshall, African American guitarist of Stevensburg, Va. Included are congregational singing, solo gospel, and spirituals, religious testimonials, sung prayer with response, and shouts. Also included are dubs from the Clive Harris Collection, comprised of assorted band music and excerpts from interviews with Clive Harris, as well as related documentation prepared by former SFC staff. Documentation consists of "collection cover sheets" that contain brief descriptions of content and technical information on the recordings.

• Audiotapes (FT-1568-1573, FT-1698-1701)