From the Bayous and Borderlands to the Billboard Charts: Hidden Collections of American Vernacular Music and Cultural and Political Expression
Item
Title
From the Bayous and Borderlands to the Billboard Charts: Hidden Collections of American Vernacular Music and Cultural and Political Expression
Description
UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library seeks support to catalog 46000 rare recordings and process 326 archival multimedia collections in the Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) that document vernacular music and capture grassroots artistic and political expressions across the United States. Together with cataloged holdings, the hidden recordings and collections represent an invaluable scholarly and community resource of 20th-century cultural and regional histories. The project will make use of established strengths in cataloging 78 rpm recordings and processing analog materials. It also will provide an opportunity to refine new models for accessioning and for seamless discovery and access to mixed collections of born digital and analog materials.
Program
Date
Temporal Coverage
0 - 2005
Spatial Coverage
Chiefly United States
Extent
46000 Artwork (Including Original Paintings, Prints, Sculpture, Etc.), Audio (Including Speech And Music), Audiovisual, Dataset (Paper Based Or Electronic), Ephemera, Image, Manuscript, Text (Including Electronic Texts)
Institution
Applicant Unit
Collaborating Institution
Identifier
PI2 Institution
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PI2 Name
Ms. Eileen Dewitya
Primary Contact
Ms. Jacqueline Dean
Request
$495,514