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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Josh Dunson Collection #20439, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Josh Dunson in July 2009 (Acc. 101154); October 2009 (Acc. 101188); July 2013 (Acc. 101834); June 2014 (Acc. 102044); December 2021 (Acc. 20211207.2);April 2022 (Acc. 20220404.1); and (Acc.103595).

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Processed by: Amy Morgan, June 2019

Encoded by: Laura Hart, June 2019

Updated by: Anne Wells, August 2019; Laura Smith, June 2022

Since August 2017, we have added ethnic and racial identities for individuals and families represented in collections. To determine 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 and racial 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 identity information to be excluded from description. When we have misidentified, please let us know at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu.

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• Carawan, Guy.
• Civil rights movements.
• Cunningham, Sis, 1909-2004.
• Dunson, Josh, 1941-
• Folk music.
• Folk musicians.
• Folk singers.
• Kahn, Si.
• Protest songs.
• Seeger, Peggy, 1935-
• Sorrels, Rosalie,

• Guy and Candie Carawan Collection (#20008)
• Si Kahn Collection (#20450)

Josh Dunson (1941-) of Dallas, Tex., is a white author, editor, musical artist representative, and social justice activist. He is the retired president of Real People's Music representatives for presenters of multicultural and family programming, author of Freedom In The Air: Song Movements Of The Sixties (1965), and co-editor of Anthology of American Folk Music (1973).

The collection of white author, editor, musical artist representative, and social justice activist, Josh Dunson, contains papers, photographs, and audiovisual materials related to folk music and protest songs of the civil rights movement. Papers consist of music industry publications, printed items, writings, and correspondence, most of which relate to Dunson's role as a musical artist representative. The collection also contains photographs depicting folk musicians, as well as audio and video recordings compiled by Dunson. Audio recordings on audiocassette and 1/4" open reel audio consist of audio interviews conducted with folk musicians, folklorists, and social justice activists, including interviews conducted for Dunson's 1965 book Freedom In The Air: Song Movements Of The Sixties, while video recordings on VHS and U-Matic consist of live performances, lectures, and documentaries. Notable subjects featured on the audio and video recordings include Guy Carawan, Sis Cunningham, Si Kahn, Peggy Seeger, and Rosalie Sorrels.

• Audiocassettes (FS-20439/1-31)
• Audiotapes (FT-20439/1-10)
• Image Folder (PF-20439/1)
• Oversize Paper Folder (OPF-20439/1)
• Videotapes (VT-20439/1-22)