Record #:

16516

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

Shaker songs and ballads are divided roughly into two groups. Wordless tunes, songs with wordless phrases that recur in formal patterns, and tunes with texts in unknown tongues; and others produced by the intellectual leaders of the sect.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955, p31-37, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Shakers

Record #:

8385

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

The North Carolina Folklore Society has awarded Eugenia Cecelia Conway a 2005 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award for her forty-five years of work “exploring and promoting the special excellences of folk musicians, important regional traditions, and the African American influences on the development of Southern and mountain banjo traditions.” She has produced a body of scholarly works, audio recordings, videos, and films that preserve and document notable performances and interviews with important traditional artists.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005, p55-59, por, bibl Periodical Website

Subject(s):

North Carolina Folklore Society--Brown-Hudson Folklore Award

Record #:

35162

Author(s):

Patterson, Daniel W.

Abstract:

A story about a girl who was driven into town by a neighbor to go see a witch to tell her what to do about an angry woman.

Source:

North Carolina Folklore Journal (NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Dec 1958, p32-33 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Witchcraft; Durham Hosiery Mill