Restrictions to Access

This collection contains materials that are accessible only on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At request of the donor, access to collection materials, both analog and digital, is provided in the Special Collections Research Room at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For further information about access to these materials, contact Research and Instructional Services staff at Wilsonlibrary@unc.edu

Access to audio or moving image materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.

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 Jefferson Holt Collection #20564, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jefferson Holt in January 2019 (Acc. 103536).

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.

Processed by: Nancy Kaiser and Patrick Cullom, June 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser, June 2019

Updated by: Anne Wells and Meredith Kite, October 2019; Anne Wells, Clare Carlson, and Jessica Venlet, February 2020

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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• Pylon (Musical group)
• Alternative rock music--Georgia--Athens.
• Alternative rock music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Holt, Jefferson.
• Music--Georgia--Athens.
• Music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Music--Southern states.
• R.E.M. (Musical group)
• Rock music--Georgia--Athens.
• Rock music--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.

Jefferson Holt is a white band manager and founder of Dog Gone Records label. He is the former band manager for R.E.M. and Pylon. In an earlier period of his life he shelved books at Davis Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Jefferson Holt is the former band manager for R.E.M. and Pylon. The collection documents these bands and the alternative rock music scenes in Chapel Hill, N.C. and Athens, Ga. from the 1970s to 2000s. There are audiovisual recordings; publicity materials, including press clippings, flyers, posters, and photographs; Pylon fan mail; t-shirts; and concert ephemera. Other bands documented in the collection are the Flat Duo Jets, The Squalls, Snatches of Pink, Die Monster Die, Vibrating Egg, Calling Sounds, The Dangtrippers, The Remanz, The Kamikazees, Chris Stamey, and Yo La Tengo. Audio and video recordings found in the collection consist of demos, pre-releases, test pressings, interviews, live performances, and music videos by R.E.M., Pylon, and other bands from the alternative rock music scenes in Chapel Hill, N.C. and Athens, Ga. Audio recordings are on audiocassette, 1/4" open reel audio, digital audio tape (DAT), Betacam, LP record, 12" stampers, and born-digital files, while video recordings are on VHS, Betacam, U-Matic, and 1" open reel video.

• Photographs (IB-20564/1, OP-PF-20564/1)
• Oversize papers (OPF-20564/1-3)
• Audiocassettes (FS-20564/1-35)
• Audiodiscs (D-20564/1-4)
• Audiotape (FT-20564/1-2)
• Digital Audio Tape (DAT-20564/1-2)
• Digital Folders (DF-20564/1-9)
• LP (FC-20564/1)
• Videotape (VT-20564/1-35)