Inspired by work of @mellydollred on citation of archival material in moving image documentary, I'm going to try to live-cite @SFolklife and @WilsonLibUNC materials I can see in @KenBurns "Country Music". I'm folding laundry so I may miss some stuff.
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns just saw one, maybe two, Fiddlin John Carson and possibly the Jimmie Rodgers from the John Edwards Memorial Foundation Collection (20001) finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20001/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Interview with country music scholar Dr. Bill C. Malone, whose collection is in the @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20315/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns More Fiddlin John Carson from JEMF COlleciton (20001)
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Betty Johnson of the Johnson Family Singers on now, collection (20316)
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20316/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns pretty sure I missed one in those banjo montages, but some of those images have multiple copies around like Steven's Minstrels image
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Definitely some Al Hopkins from JEMF Collection (20001)
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20001/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Here's that John Carson (with Al Hopkins and others) image with the terrorist organization poster in the background. JEMF Collection (20001)
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns DeFord Bailey material from the David Morton Collection (20373)
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20373/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Also read this review by Dr. Travils Steimling (WVU)
100daysinappalachia.com/2019/09/15/ken…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Spotted Blue Ridge Corn Shuckers (with Ernest Stoneman, Hattie Frost Stoneman, and Eck Dunford) from JEMF Collection (20001)
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Stoneman 1926 Victor recording, call no. 78-12822
catalog.lib.unc.edu/catalog/UNCb71…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns see Ed Kahn Collection (20360) for Carter Family and Ralph Peer research
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20360/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Tenneva Ramblers (with Jimmie Rodgers) from JEMF Collection (20001)
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@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns definitely a few Jimmie Rodgers images/headshots from JEMF
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20001/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns read Barry Mazor's book on Ralph Peer fro more detail into this story:
ralphspeer.com
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Can also seek out the interview with Ralph Peer conducted by Lillian Borgeson, 4 open reel tapes in the JEMF. See the transcripts in the SFC Field Notes Collection (30025)
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/30025/FT-2772-…, John Edwards Memorial Foundation Collection #20001 (Ralph Peer/Lillian Borgeson )
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Copy of The Singing Brakeman on 16mm in the William R. Ferris Collection (20367)
Film F-20367/618
The Singing Brakeman, by Jimmie Rodgers.
16mm motion picture film
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20367/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Some of the Sara and Maybelle footage from the film of the same name by John Cohen "Sara and Maybelle: The Carter Family"
johncohenworks.com/films/filmslis…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Been waiting fro this one, interviews and photos of the great Leslie Riddle in the Mike Seeger Collection (20009)
interview, Lesley Riddle interview, recorded at his home in Rochester, N.Y. on 27 October 1963
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@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Photo of Riddle credited to sister Rosa Lee Riddle in the Mike Seeger Collection (20009). Listen to those interviews though!
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@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Both of those Jimmie Rodgers images, with Will Rogers, and with Ralph Peer in the JEMF Collection (20001)
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem…
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@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns some of those Carter Family images possibly from Ed Kahn Collection (20360), also including correspondence, lyrics, interviews. Kahn wrote his dissertation on the Carter Family.
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20360/
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Just saw this Jimmie Rodgers from the JEMF Collection (20001)
dc.lib.unc.edu/cdm/singleitem…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Jimmie Rodgers with Carter Family image in the Ed Kahn Collection (20360)
finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/20360/#image_4…
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns Well I guess that's it, I know I missed a few things, but pretty fun. Will see how many of these I can do in realtime as the series goes on but will try an get to every episode eventually. Have a good night!
@mellydollred @SFolklife @WilsonLibUNC @KenBurns well this is a bummer
nytimes.com/reuters/2019/0…
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