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| Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately About 90 items items) |
| Abstract | Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and, in 1998, received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. She worked in the Soutern Folklife Collection, 1999-2001. The collection includes field recordings on audiocassette and interviews from Amy Davis's 1997 Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented the musical traditions of worship communities on the Carteret County, N.C., island. The project featured musicians, church leaders, and congregants from Wesleyan, Holiness, Methodist, Mormon, and Baptist churches. Audiocassettes contain interviews with Harkers Island singers and musicians and recordings of church services and musical performances at churches, the Sea Level Rest Home, and the homes of musicians. While the bulk of the collection documents sacred musical traditions, tapes of James and Tommy Rose contain performances of secular country music, including songs by Hank Williams and Gene Autry. Papers include field notes on interviews conducted and services visited; transctipts of interviews; an index of songs recorded; contact sheets for photographs related to the project; and short descriptions of photograph contents. Field notes are arranged by church and include descriptions of recording situations and some biographical information on the performers. Photographs document members of Harkers Island congregations; church services and social functions; church interiors and exteriors; performances by church musicians and singers; Clinton Nelson's recording studio; and Harkers Island scenes, including Dora Willis's soft shell crab tanks and of Alex Willis's boatworks. |
| Creator | Davis, Amy. |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
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Processing Information
Processed by: Burgin Matthews, December 2002.
Encoded by: Burgin Matthews, December 2002, and by Alison Waldenberg, August 2006.
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Biographical Information
Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and in 1998 received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has recorded a cassette with Kentucky fiddler Herstel Flynn and has also performed with the Hushpuppies, a North Carolina-based old-time group. She conducted fieldwork for the Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council's Blue Ridge Music Trail Project and researched and written about country music communities and traditions. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. From 1999 to 2001, she Davis was folklife assistant at the Southern Folklife Collection.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes field recordings on audiocassette and interviews from musician Amy Davis's 1997 Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented the musical traditions of worship communities on Harkers Island, N.C., in Carteret County, N.C. The project featured musicians, church leaders, and congregants from Wesleyan, Holiness, Methodist, Mormon, and Baptist churches. Audiocassettes contain interviews with Harkers Island singers and musicians and recordings of church services and musical performances at churches, the Sea Level Rest Home, and the homes of musicians. While the bulk of the collection documents sacred musical traditions, tapes of James Rose and Tommy Rose contain performances of secular country music, including songs by Hank Williams and Gene Autry. Papers include field notes on interviews conducted and services visited; transctipts of interviews; an index of songs recorded; contact sheets for photographs related to the project; and short descriptions of photograph contents. Field notes are arranged by church and include descriptions of recording situations and some biographical information on the performers. Photographs document members of Harkers Island congregations; church services and social functions; church interiors and exteriors; performances by church musicians and singers; Clinton Nelson's recording studio; and Harkers Island scenes, including Dora Willis's soft shell crab tanks and of Alex Willis's boatworks.
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Series 1. Audiovisual Material, 1997.
Arrangement: chronological.
Audiocassette titles include Davis's original "HI" tape numbers.
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Series 2. Papers, 1997.
| Folder 1 |
Field notes |
| Folder 2 |
Transcripts |
| Folder 3 |
Song index |
| Folder 4 |
Contact sheets |
| Folder 5 |
Photograph logs |
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