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Archival processing of the Doug DeNatale Collection of Oral Histories was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Size | .5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 40 items) |
Abstract | Audio recordings of oral history interviews compiled by white folklorist and arts administrator, Douglas DeNatale. The recordings feature interviews with white storyteller, Malcolm Shaw, and Lauchlin Shaw, white farmer and old-time musician, from Spring Lake, N.C., about their family, persons of Scottish heritage in North Carolina, and Lauchlin Shaw's music. The collection also includes dubs of oral history interviews that DeNatale conducted with residents and former textile workers of New Bern, N.C., dubs of local ballads and songs from the Blue Ridge Institute Archives at Ferrum College, and documentation related to the recordings found in the collection. |
Creator | DeNatale, Douglas. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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Douglas DeNatale is a white folklorist and arts administrator who teaches at Boston University Metropolitin College. He received his masters in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his is Ph.D. in folklife from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, where he wrote his Ph.D. thesis on the mill village life of Bynum, N.C. Formerly, Dr. DeNatale was director of the Lowell Folklife Project at the Library of Congress and director of the oral history and folklife program and collections at the University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum. Trained as an ethnographer, DeNatale has overseen collaborative arts research projects for the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Library of Congress. He conducted oral histories for the Lowell National Historic Park, the Southern Oral History Program, and the J. Alden Weir National Historic Site, and curated exhibitions for the McKissick Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Biographical information courtesy of Boston University Metropolitin College.
Back to TopOpen reel audio recordings of oral history interviews compiled by white folklorist and arts administrator, Douglas DeNatale. The recordings feature interviews with white storyteller, Malcolm Shaw, and Lauchlin Shawwhite, farmer and old-time musician, from Spring Lake, N.C., about their family, persons of Scottish heritage in North Carolina, and Lauchlin Shaw's music. The collection also includes dubs of oral history interviews that DeNatale conducted with residents and former textile workers of New Bern, N.C. DeNatale originally conducted these interviews with textile workers, mothers, and traditional musicians of Bynum, N.C., for the Southern Oral History program as part of a study of the industrialization of the Carolina Piedmont. Additionally, the collection contains dubs of local ballads and songs compiled by DeNatale from the Blue Ridge Institute Archives at Ferrum College, as well as documentation related to the recordings found in the collection, including a tape index and select transcripts, created by DeNatale and former SFC staff.
Back to TopArrangement: In order as received. Related documentation interfiled with audio recordings.
Processing information: Titles and descriptions compiled from SFC database. Folders 1-6 were formerly in Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025), folders 518, 520, 521, 522, 523, 555.
Processed by: Anne Wells, October 2019
Encoded by: Anne Wells, October 2019
Archival processing of the Doug DeNatale Collection of Oral Histories was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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