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Patterson describes the art work found on gravestones.
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4099
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Sheila Adams grew up in Madison County in the small town of Sodom, a community famous for its ballad singers. She is a seventh-generation singer and is passing on the tradition to her daughter. She received a 1998 Brown- Hudson Folklore Award for continuing the state's ballad tradition.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 45 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1998,
p115-116, il, por
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8385
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 52 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2005,
p55-59, por, bibl
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8500
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The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970, and Dorothea and Janette Moser are the first folklorists who come from two generations of the same family to receive the award. Their father, Artus Moser, received the award in 1972. Like their father, the daughters went to college, taught college courses about the Appalachian traditions, and collected, preserved, and performed the material of their Appalachian heritage.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p4-7, il
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16253
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A Singing Stream is the first film in the American Traditional Culture Series to chronicle 20th-century African-American history through the musical traditions of one family. It presents the Landis family of rural Granville County and suggests the cultural resources with which they have faced historical changes.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 36 Issue 1, Winter-Spring 1989,
p1-36, map, bibl, f
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16488
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Patterson discusses the melodic resources of secular folk tradition and American folk-spiritual movement born of the Shakers in North America.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 13 Issue 1-2, 1965,
p111-120, il
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16516
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 3 Issue 2, Dec 1955,
p31-37, il
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22766
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Scotch-Irish immigrants brought unique traditions to the Piedmont of North Carolina. Former folklore and American literature professor, Daniel Patterson, examines gravestones from the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries as a lens for identifying these customs, while providing a brief history of gravestone carving in the Piedmont.
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35162
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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.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 6 Issue 2, Dec 1958,
p32-33
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35168
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The Fool Killer started off as a local newspaper editor who collected current stories about particularly foolish deeds done by someone. He became well known; an example is given of one of his famous letters.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 8 Issue 2, Dec 1960,
p22-25
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35261
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A woman, Mrs. A. E. Watts, donated a collection of ballads, one of which is included in the article, titled “Song Ballet Rebel Soldier.”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 14 Issue 2, Nov 1966,
p35-36
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35277
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The author briefly notes the acquisition of the song recorded in the rest of the article, “The Wayfaring Stranger.”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 15 Issue 2, Nov 1967,
p58-59
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35287
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A brief introduction preludes the tune and lyrics for the ballad “What are Little Babies made of?”
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 16 Issue 1, May 1968,
p36-37
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35456
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A list of musical recordings that was originally compiled to help educators teach folklore.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 3, May 1971,
p99-104
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35747
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This discography of folk songs covers several regions of North Carolina, ethnic traditions, and folklore genres. Part one was included in NC Folklore Journal Volume 19, issue 3.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 25 Issue 2, Nov 1977,
p67-74
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