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[Identification of item], in the Julietta Haynes Collection of Sacred Harp Shape-note Singing Recordings #20126, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Processed by: Anne Wells, June 2020

Encoded by: Anne Wells, June 2020

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Archival processing of the Julietta Haynes Collection of Sacred Harp Shape-note Singing Recordings was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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• Alabama--Songs and music.
• Cullman County (Ala.)--Songs and music.
• Folk music--Alabama.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Harnett County (N.C.)--Songs and music.
• Haynes, Julietta, 1917-
• Hymns, English--Southern States.
• North Carolina--Songs and music.
• Shape-note singing--Alabama.
• Shape-note singing--North Carolina.

• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025
• Julietta Haynes, "A history of the Primitive Baptists", 1959, North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library), C286.4 H424h

Dr. Julietta Haynes (1917-) received her PhD in History from the University of Texas at Austin in 1959. Her PhD dissertation, titled "A History of the Primitive Baptists", is available through the North Carolina Collection. From 1969-1971 Haynes recorded Sacred Harp shape-note singing, a tradition of sacred choral music, in North Carolina and Alabama. At the time of the field recordings, Haynes lived in Buies Creek, Harnett County, N.C.

Field recordings of Sacred Harp shape-note singing from the "Original Sacred Harp" by unidentified white residents of Buies Creek, N.C., and Cullman, Ala. One tape documents two small group sessions set up by Dr. Julietta Haynes, a white historian and collector, at her home in Buies Creek, Harnett County, N.C., in 1969 and 1970, and includes 54 selections. The other tapes record a singing at Cullman Courthouse in Alabama in July 1971 featuring many more singers and more than 100 selections. Recordings are on 1/4" open reel audio tape and are presumably dubs made from Haynes's original recordings. The collection also includes supporting documentation created by former Southern Folklife Collection staff. Documentation contains technical information on the recordings, as well as additional information on the content of the recordings, such as selection titles and the number of singers present per selection.

• Audiotapes (FT-237-241)
• Field Notes, Folder 405, Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes #30025