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Collection Number: 20190

Collection Title: Phyllis Young Howren Field Recordings of West Virginia Folk Songs, circa 1980s

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Size 3 items
Abstract The undated field recordings (circa 1980s) on open-reel audio tape contain West Virginina folk songs performed by musician D.R. Petry. Phyllis Young Howren, a faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recorded Petry's performances in Braxton County, W.V. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Howren, Phyllis Young.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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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 Phyllis Young Howren Field Recordings of West Virginia Folk Songs #20190, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.
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This summary description was created in January 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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Phyllis Young Howren (1938-2007) was a lecturer in the English department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she taught courses in the reading program and English as a second language. She also volunteered as an English teacher for members of Chapel Hill's Spanish speaking community. Howren was originally from Clendenin, W.V.

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