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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 Allison Hussey Collection #20566, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Allison Hussey in March 2019 (Acc. 103567).

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Processed by: Nancy Kaiser, Anne Wells, and Meredith Kite, September 2019

Encoded by: Nancy Kaiser and Anne Wells, September 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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Alternative rock music--North Carolina.
• Arcade Fire (Musical group)
• Artists--North Carolina.
• Barbour, Dan.
• Bombadil (Musical group)
• Chatham County Line (Musical group)
• Future Islands (Musical group)
• Gerrard, Alice, 1934-
• Hart, Matt.
• Hiss Golden Messenger (Musical group)
• Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, N.C.)
• Hussey, Allison.
• Liberti, Ron.
• Mandolin Orange (Musical group)
• McCaughan, Mac.
• MerleFest.
• Mount Moriah (Musical group)
• Music--North Carolina.
• Neutral Milk Hotel (Musical group)
• North Carolina State Fair.
• Oliva, Steve.
• Posters, American--North Carolina.
• Rock music--North Carolina.
• Spoon (Musical group)
• Van Etten, Sharon.
• Welch, Gillian.
• Williams, Christopher.
• World of Bluegrass.

• Matt Hart Poster Collection (#20457)
• Ron Liberti Collection (#20398)
• Merge Records Collection (#20473)
• Steve Oliva Collection (#20506)
• Chris Williams Posters and Prints Collection (#20454)

Allison Hussey of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a white journalist who has written about music and culture since 2010. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she wrote for the Daily Tar Heel. Hussey later was music editor for Indy Week. Her personal website is http://www.huss.works.

The Allison Hussey Collection consists mostly of materials related to the local independent rock and traditional music scene, including concert posters; collected magazines, newspapers and other publications; a personal planner (2013-2014); ephemera, including ticket stubs, conference nametags, press passes, bumper and other swag-type stickers, and other promotional materials, such as butttons, a Mandolin Orange t-shirt, and bandannas; programs of events Hussey attended; and notebooks with concert set lists. Events covered in the collection include Merlefest and the opening of Earl Scruggs Center, as well as many more cultural events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Asheville, including IBMA World of Bluegrass, the North Carolina State Fair, Chatham County Fair, Hopscotch, and Moogfest.

Of particular note are the promotional and concert posters of touring musicians and bands from the region, such as Mount Moriah, Bombadil, Chatham County Line, Mandolin Orange, Hiss Golden Messenger, Alice Gerrard, and Mac McCaughan, as well as posters promoting touring bands from across the United States and Canada, including Arcade Fire, Future Islands, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spoon, Sharon Van Etten, and Gillian Welch, among others, who played at such venues as the Cat's Cradle, Carolina Theatre, Nightlight, Pinhook, and the Haw River Ballroom. Local artists Dan Barbour, Matt Hart, Ron Liberti, Steve Oliva, and Chris Williams designed and screenprinted the majority of the posters found in the collection. Some of the posters are autographed by musicians.

The collection also contains a digital release by the local band Baoboab, as well as video recordings created by Hussey, including footage of live performances by the Annuals, Amanda Palmer, and Wrecking Season that Hussey recorded when she was a teenager and recordings of class projects and presentations that Hussey created while she was a journalism student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

• Oversize papers (OPF-20566/1-14, XOPF-20566/1)
• Ephemera (OB-20566/1-2)
• Digital Files (DF-20566/1)
• Videotapes (VT-20566/1-4)
• Audiocassettes (FS-20566/1-2)