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Restrictions to Use

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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 Eugene Chadbourne Collection #70041, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Eugene Chadbourne in February 2020 (Acc. 20200221.2).

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.

This summary description was created in July 2021 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, July 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.

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• African American musicians.
• Alcorn, Susan, 1953-.
• Bishop, Jeb.
• Black, Jimmy Carl.
• Chadbourne, Eugene.
• Eubank, Chris.
• Fox, Dave (David Earl).
• Helms, Don (Guitarist).
• Hurley, Michael (Vocalist).
• Kramer, 1958-
• Licht, David (Drummer).
• Music festivals--United States.
• Musicians--United States--Biography.
• Musicians.
• Shull, Carrie.
• Straub, Karl (Guitarist).
• Westerlund, Joe (Drummer).
• Zorn, John, 1953-

New York native Eugene Chadbourne is a white jazz instrumentalist, composer, and avant-garde guitarist based in Greensboro, N.C. Also known as "Dr. Chad," Chadbourne organizes an annual series of concerns known as Chadfest. His catalog is a example of the amateur production and distribution of recorded music first started on audiocassette in the 1970s.

Collection of Eugene Chadbourne, including self-produced recordable compact discs, vinyl records, and a flyer for the music festival ChadFest 2020. Chadbourne created the artwork for each album. Recordings include performances and compositions by many people, including some Black musicians. Artists include: Chris Eubank, Carrie Shull, Joe Westerlund, David Licht, Karl Straub, Don Helms, Susan Alcorn, Jimmy Carl Black, Dave Fox, Jeb Bishop, John Zorn, Kramer, Michael Hurley, and others. Also included is Chadbourne's 2013 book Dreamory, a collection of his tour and dream diaries and teenage and draft dodging memoirs.

• Book and LPs have been or will be cataloged in the University Library's Online Public Access Catalog.