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Size | 36 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8000 items) |
Abstract | Personal collection of Ray Alden, a white musician, record producer, artist, photographer, educator, and author. Collection consists largely of field recordings, festival and club performances, airchecks, and album master tapes of old-time music and bluegrass music. Recordings document many of the traditional musicians active in the 1970s and 1980s, including Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Fred Cockerham, Joe Val, J.D. Crowe, Hazel Dickens, Johnson Mountain Boys, and Bill Monroe, as well as recordings of emerging old-time musicians Alden recorded for his Young Fogies recording project. Also includes photograph albums of old-time musicians, including The Kimble Family; family photographs; research files; and Alden's old-time competition ribbons. |
Creator | Alden, Ray |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
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Back to TopRay Alden (1942-2009) was a white musician, record producer, artist, photographer, educator, and author. Alden made and produced recordings of traditional music throughout the United States, photographing and writing about old-time Appalachian music and culture. He founded the Field Recorders’ Collective, producing unique traditional music recordings. He was interested in loudspeaker design, writing two books on the topic as well as incorporating the topic into his classes at New York City's Stuyvesant High School, where he taught mathematics for 25 years.
Back to TopPersonal collection of Ray Alden. Collection consists largely of field recordings, festival and club performances, airchecks, and album master tapes of old-time music and bluegrass music. Recordings document many of the traditional musicians active in the 1970s and 1980s, including Tommy Jarrell, Kyle Creed, Fred Cockerham, Joe Val, J.D. Crowe, Hazel Dickens, Johnson Mountain Boys, and Bill Monroe, as well as recordings of emerging old-time musicians Alden recorded for his Young Fogies recording project. Also includes photograph albums of old-time musicians, including The Kimble Family; family photographs; research files; and Alden's old-time competition ribbons.
Back to TopThis summary description was created in March 2022 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, March 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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