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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Nancy Dols Collection #20194, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nancy Dols Neithammer of Media, Pa., in 1993 (Acc. 102639)

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Processed by: Anne Wells, September 2016

Encoded by: Anne Wells, September 2016

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2021

Archival processing of the Nancy Dols Collection was made possible through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Brown, Paul, 1952-
• Cahan, Andy.
• Davis, Luther, 1887-1986.
• Fiddle tunes--Southern States.
• Fiddlers.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Folk music--Virginia.
• Jarrell, Tommy, 1901-1985.
• Neithammer, Nancy.
• Neithammer, Rusty.
• Old-time music--Southern States.

• Paul Brown Collection (#20382)
• Andy Cahan Collection (#20018)
• Southern Folklife Collection Field Notes (#30025)

Nancy Dols Neithammer is a musician who studied ethnomusicology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she wrote her thesis on old-time fiddler, Tommy Jarrell, of Surry County, N.C. In 1980 Dolls travelled to North Carolina to attend a fiddler's convention, and ended up extending her stay for two years to learn from Jarrell firsthand. Her interviews with Jarrell have appeared in The Old-Time Herald. Dols currently plays with her husband Rusty Neithammer in Pennsylvania with the Bow Rockers, an old-time band that plays for dances in the area.

The Nancy Dols Collection consists of six video recordings on 1" Open Reel Video and VHS. The recordings primarily feature old-time fiddlers Tommy Jarrell of Surry County, N.C. and Luther Davis of Grayson County, Va., including footage of Jarrell and others playing on and off stage at the 1982 Low Gap Fiddle Contest in Low Gap, N.C. and footage of Davis playing at his home outside of Galax, Va. Of particular note is the bowing lights video in which Jarrell plays in the dark with a light attached to his wrist to help illustrate his bowing technique. The collection contains the original VHS recordings and a dub on 1" Open Reel Video.

• Videotapes (VT-20194/1-6)