Bob Riesman Collection, 1920-2011

Collection Number: 20560

Collection Title: Bob Riesman Collection, 1920-2011

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Size	18.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1600 items)
Abstract	The collection of Bob Riesman, the white author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, includes research files, audiocassette interviews, live recordings, and printed materials relating to his biography of Broonzy, an African American musician from the Arkansas Delta who was a major influence on American blues and folk music.
Creator	Riesman, Bob.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Language	English

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Restrictions to Access: Use of audio materials may require production of listening copies.

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 Bob Riesman Collection #20560, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from Bob Riesman in December 2018 (Acc. 103489).

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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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, Anne Wells, Emma Evans, April 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser and Anne Wells, April 2019

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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Bob Riesman is the white author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).

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The collection of Bob Riesman, the white author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy, includes research files, audiocassette interviews, live recordings, and printed materials relating to his biography of Broonzy, an African American musician from the Arkansas Delta who was a major influence on American blues and folk music.

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About 1600 items.

Arrangement: as received from creator. Audiocassette interviews arranged alphabetically by interviewee. Duplicates of audiocassette interviews listed last.

Processing information: Titles compiled from original containers.

Box 1-12

Box 1

Box 2

Box 3

Box 4

Box 5

Box 6

Box 7

Box 8

Box 9

Box 10

Box 11

Box 12

Research files

Box 7 includes interview transcripts; boxes 11-12 include photographs and other files relating to publication of the book.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20560/1

Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger at Circle Pines, Mich.: tape 1 of 2, 6 July 1957

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Track list found with audiotape now resides in box 12.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20560/2

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Interview dubs

Audiocassette

duplicates of interviews found in the collection.

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Audiocassettes (FS-20560/1-168)
Audiotape (FT-20560/1-2)

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Collection Number: 20560 Collection Title: Bob Riesman Collection, 1920-2011