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.