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Collection Number: 20256

Collection Title: Marilyn Engle Recordings of Albert Hash and Tommy Jarrell, 1974

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Size 8 items
Abstract The collection contains seven field recordings on open-reel audio tape of old time music performed by Tommy Jarrell of Surry County, N.C., and Albert Hash of Whitetop, Va. According to field notes written by folklorist Dan Patterson, Marilyn Engle and Lex Varela made the recordings in 1974. Engle was a student in Patterson’s folklore class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator Engle, Marilyn.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language English
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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 Marilyn Engle Recordings of Albert Hash and Tommy Jarrell #20256, 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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Marilyn Engle attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the early 1970s.

Tommy Jarrell (1901-1985) was a fiddler, banjo player, and singer, who played old time Appalachian music. In 1982, Jarrell whose playing style remains influential, received a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Albert Hash (1917-1983) was a fiddler and musical instrument builder from Whitetop, Va. During the 1940s and 1950s, Hash performed with Whitetop Mountain Band, Spice Bottom Boys, and Carolina Troubadours.

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