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Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

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 North Carolina Folklife Institute Collection #20210, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received circa 1993 (Acc. 103546).

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.

Encoded by: Laura Smith

Processed by: Nicole Cvjetnicanin and Rebecca Stubbs, April 2019

Updated by: Anne Wells, May 2019; Nancy Kaiser, July 2021

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine ethnic identity, we rely on self-identification; other information supplied to the repository by collection creators or sources; public records, press accounts, and secondary sources; and contextual information in the collection materials. Omissions of ethnic identities in finding aids created or updated after August 2017 are an indication of insufficient information to make an educated guess or an individual’s preference for ethnicity to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@email.unc.edu.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Baker, Etta, 1913-2006.
• Bluegrass music--North Carolina.
• Blues (Music)--North Carolina.
• Cherokee Indians--Music.
• Cherokee Indians--North Carolina.
• Cherokee Indians--Songs and music.
• Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music (1989 : Chapel Hill, N.C.)
• Fiddle tunes--North Carolina.
• Folk dance music--North Carolina.
• Folk festivals--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• North Carolina Folklife Institute.
• Old-time music--North Carolina.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

The North Carolina Folklife Institute is a nonprofit organization founded in 1974 and located in Durham, N.C. The Folklife Institute "promotes the preservation, appreciation and understanding of the folklife heritage and culture in North Carolina" and supports programs launched through the North Carolina Arts Council's Folk & Traditional Arts Program.

The North Carolina Folklife Institute Collection contains project files, administrative records, publications, and publicity materials for programs, events, and documentary works produced or supported by the North Carolina Folklife Institute. Projects and programs documented in the files include North Carolina Folklife Festival, Blacks 'n' Blues, Black Folk Heritage Tour, Blues to Bluegrass, Celebration!, Charlotte Country Music Story, Folk Music in the Schools, Cherokee Voices Festival, British American Festival, Sounds of the South conference and the establishment of the Southern Folklife Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the documentary films Free Show Tonite and From Our House to the White House: Square Dancing in Western North Carolina. Most projects were launched by the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, and supported by the Folklife Institute. Files contain correspondence, memorandum, planning documents, publicity materials, press releases, contracts, grant proposals and reports, budgets and other financial documents, participating artists' information, programs and schedules, posters, and newspaper clippings and magazine articles. Other events and organizations represented in the collection include the 1980 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C. The collection also contains some sheet music and a dubbed 1989 oral history interview on audiocassette tape with an accompanying tape log. The interview conducted by Leslie Williams is with Piedmont blues guitarist Etta Baker (1913-2006) of Caldwell County, N.C.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20210/1-2)
• Oversize papers (XOPF-20210/1)