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39471
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The folksong “Barbara Allen” has been documented since the 17th century, but mostly likely originated well before that. The author learned it from his mother, who learned it from her father, who sang it for his children. The song has several variations, but also has three principal melodied to which it is sung or played. The lyrics to the song are transcribed as sung by John Underwood.
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36539
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Although Greer was not a traditional folklorist, he contributed greatly to the continuing knowledge of Western North Carolina balladry. He both collected and sang ballads from around the state, along with passing on those he had collected to the /Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore./
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36540
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Gladys Kincaid was murdered in Morganton, NC in 1927, inspiring several ballads to be written about the event. Only one of the three recorded ballads has an author and it was composed about a month after the murder. An account of the murder, manhunt, and effects of the event are described.
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36541
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Edith Walker was a frequent informant for Abrams’s collection of over 400 folksongs. A brief description of her life is outlined in the article.
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In March 2006, the W. L. Eury Appalachian Collection at Appalachian State University's Carol Grotnes Belk Library and Information Commons began a project for the purpose of\r\ndigitizing the folksong collections of two former university icons, Dr. Isaac Garfield (I. G. or \"Ike\") Greer (1881-1967) and Dr. William Amos (\"Doc\") Abrams (1905-1991). The project was entitled \"So Mote It Ever Be: The Folksong Heritage of North Carolina's Northern Blue\r\nRidge Mountains.\" The process would entail scanning each unique textual document in these collections (using North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online [NC-ECHO] guidelines), transcribing the texts in plain text word processing format, digitally recording the analog field recordings, and compiling metadata for these items\r\n(such as informants, geographic associations, and scholarly classification schemes).
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36534
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A transcribed interview between the authors talking about the life of Karen Baldwin. A song sung in her honor is also transcribed.
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36537
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W. Amos Abrams, folklorist and noted contributor to the NCFJ, became interested in folk ballads when he studied under Frank C. Brown at Duke University. He continued his study and collection of ballads throughout his long career as a folklorist.
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36333
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A song about a frog riding on the back of a raccoon to various places was well known in some areas of South Carolina. The author learned the song as a small child, but did not know the history and variations of the song until much later. When she was in college, she collected several variations of the song, which all followed the same general story line.
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5586
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The Menhaden Chantymen of Beaufort and Carteret Counties sing chanteys that reflect the work, religion, and loves of the men and are also reminiscent of the old field-work songs. In 1991, the group received a N.C. Folk Heritage Award.
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2334
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The song \"Old Dan Tucker\" was written in 1893, although verses existed before then. Tradition holds that he was born in England in 1714, came to Bath in 1720, and married and moved to Randolph County in 1750. Real or not, he inspired many verses.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 63 Issue 1, June 1995, p31-32, il
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Born in a log cabin in Jackson County, Felix Ray Allen grew up to be a lawyer, judge, and author, but is most famous for composing the \"Ballad of Kidder Cole\" when he was sixteen.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 63 Issue 5, Oct 1995, p14-15, por
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35973
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While orality and literacy is not the only dialectic involved in producing changes to oral tradition, the author applied the interdependence of orality and literacy to the transmission of ballads to a family in Madison County.
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1735
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Wilkes County native Otis \"Otto\" Wood is one of the more colorful and famous lawbreakers in the state. His exploits, one of which was the murder of a popular Greensboro store owner, inspired the ballad \"Otto Wood the Bandit.\"
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Luster introduces the African-American chanteymen of the Menhaden fish pulls.
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The late Anne Locher Warner, author and collector of North Carolina folksongs, was posthumously awarded the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore award.
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