Berea College -- Special Collections and Archives -- Sound Archives
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Celebration of Traditional Music
Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract
Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
Reuben Powell Early Country Music Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0065 SAA 065
Abstract
The collecting activity reflected in this collection began in the early 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. After Rueben Powell’s 1968 retirement from work as chief utility engineer at Wright Patterson Airforce Base in Ohio, Powell and his wife Retha started the Renfro Valley Tape Club as a means of sharing the fruits of his collecting with other country music fans. Its appeal was particularly substantial among Powell's contemporaries who were disenchanted with the then newer country...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1910-1982
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- Subject
- African Americans. 1
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Berea (Ky.) 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Country music -- History. 1
- Country musicians -- Social life and customs. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk and music festivals. 1
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Radio programs. 1
- Sound recordings -- History. 1
- String band music -- Appalachian Region. 1 + ∧ less
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