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[Identification of item], in the Ermon H. Godwin Recordings of the National Hollerin' Contest #20123, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, July 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, July 2020

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Archival processing of the Ermon H. Godwin Recordings of the National Hollerin' Contest was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Festivals--North Carolina.
• Godwin, Ermon H., 1927-2009.
• National Hollerin' Contest (Spivey's Corner, N.C.)
• Spivey's Corner (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Yodeling--North Carolina.

• Frances Barefoot Collection #20567
• Peter Bartis Recording on Hollers and the National Hollerin' Contest (Spivey's Corner, N.C.) #20220
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025

Ermon Honeycutt Godwin (1927-2009) of Spivey's Corner, N.C. was the co-founder and president of the National Hollerin' Contest held in Spivey's Corner, N.C. He was a deacon at the Shady Grove Original Freewill Baptist Church, the assistant vice president of First Citizens Bank and Trust Co., Dunn, N.C., and president and member of the Sampson County Historical Society. He was a Mason and a member of a number of organizations, including the Scottish Rite, the Dunn Shriner's Club, and the Dunn Kiwanis club. He was an amateur photographer and the founder of the Cape Fear Amateur Radio Club. He co-authored a book titled Hollerin' Revived at Spivey's Corner (1993) with Oscar M. Bizzell.

Biographical information found in Godwin's obituary as published in the Fayetteville Observer on 18 January 2009.

Documentary audio recordings of the first and fourth annual National Hollerin' Contest held in Spivey's Corner, N.C., including supper calls, yodelling hollers, distress calls, hollers of tunes, and other types of hollers and calls. Ermon H. Godwin, a white deacon and bank official who co-founded the National Hollerin' Contest, compiled the recordings in June 1969 and June 1972. The collection also contains supporting documentation, or detailed tape logs, prepared by former UNC library staff that include participant names and a description of their hollers. As noted on the tape logs, the three 1/4" open reel recordings found in the collection have been left largely unedited in order "to capture the total context of the event."

• Audiotapes (FT-184-186)
• Field Note (Folder 395), Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025