Jones, Loyal, 1928-2023
Person
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Appalachian Center Old Regular Baptist Recordings
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0128 SAA 128
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of recordings of worship services and interviews that document Old Regular and Primitive Baptist singing and preaching traditions in Kentucky's Floyd, Knott, Letcher, and Perry counties.The recordings were made primarily in the 1970s and 1980s by Berea College faculty members Loyal Jones and John Wallhauser, other researchers, and church members.
There are 13 reel-to-reel and 23 audio tape cassette recordings along with written recording contents logs....
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1970-1980
Bascom Lamar Lunsford Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0031 SAA 029
Abstract
Bascom Lamar Lunsford was particularly noted for his memory collection of 300 ballads, tunes and tales and the establishment in 1927, of the Ashville, North Carolina based Mountain Dance and Folk Festival which has continued to the present time. During his long career, Lunsford practiced law, published a song collection, and made several documentary recordings, while continuing to perform (vocal, banjo, and fiddle) collect songs, and write a few of his own (including “That Good Old Mountain...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1874-1973
Berea College Blacks in Appalachia Symposium Collection, 1989
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.07
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of recordings documenting the event "Blacks in Appalachia - From Invisibility to Importance: A Symposium, Seminar, and Celebration" held at Berea College, May 19-20, 1989. The event marked the establishment of the Goode Professorship of Black and Appalachian Studies at Berea College.
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Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1989
Council of Southern Mountains Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0002 SAA 001
Abstract
The Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM) 1912-1989, began as a gathering of various citizens and mountain missionaries working in relative isolation throughout Appalachia, which created a forum for the sharing of ideas, experiences and inspiration. The Council grew and changed over time into an organization that promoted cooperation among private, government, and religious organizations in southern Appalachia and served as a key factor in bringing the issues and experiences of Appalachia...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1912-1970; Other: Date acquired: 04/24/1970
Wilma Dykeman collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.16
Abstract
Collection of materials of and about Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006).
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1959-1998
Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling Collection, 1987
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.06
Scope and Contents
This collection contains video recordings documenting the Fifth National Festival of Black Storytelling held at Berea College, November 12-14, 1987. Features of the event included concurrent storytelling sessions for various ages, the Second National Liars Contest, an informal "Swapping Ground" for storytellers, and scholarly lectures on the status of blacks in Appalachia.Among the fifteen master storytellers participating in the festival were Mary Carter Smith and Linda...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1987
James Still Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0037 SAA 035
Abstract
James Still, a native of Alabama, was educated at Lincoln Memorial University (B.A., 1929), Vanderbilt University (M.A., 1930), and the University of Illinois (B.S., 1931). As a resident of rural Knott County, Kentucky, Still published stories and poems in the Atlantic Monthly, Yale Review, American Mercury, and the Saturday Evening Post among others. His works are generally considered to be both accurate and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1930-2001
Bradley Kincaid Collection
Collection
Identifier: BCA 0014 -SAA 013
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence, business records, photographs, news clippings, songbooks, and sheet music from radio ballad singer Bradley Kincaid. Collection sound recordings include interviews of Kincaid and his associates, a 1974 Kincaid performance at the Renfro Valley Traditional Music Festival, a 1974 recording of the song "Who Is Bradley Kincaid" composed and performed by Vince Matthews and Glen Sherley and copies of Kincaid's commercial 78 rpm discs (1928-1947).
Dates:
1856-1999; Majority of material found within 1923-1949
Loyal Jones Faith and Meaning Interview Collection
Collection — 1
Identifier: BCA 0264
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of interviews, worship services, and radio programs recorded by Loyal Jones as part of the data he gathered in the process of writing Faith and Meaning in the Southern Uplands published in 1999.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1972-1995; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1901
Loyal Jones Rural/Country Comedy Reference Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0135 SAA 135
Abstract
Loyal Jones (1928-) grew up on a farm in western North Carolina. He graduated from Hayesville, North Carolina High School in 1945, earned an undergraduate degree in English at Berea College in 1954, and received his masters in English from the University of North Carolina in 1957. He was the first Director of the Berea College Appalachian Center (now the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center) serving in that capacity from 1970 to 1993.
Jones served in the United States Army and was a public...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1991-2008
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- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Appalachian Region -- Race relations. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Old Regular Baptists -- Appalachian Region -- History. 2
- Old Regular Baptists -- Hymns. 2
- Rural-urban migration -- Appalachian Region. 2
- African American women. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Folklore. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region -- Social conditions. 1
- African Americans -- Appalachian Region. 1
- African Americans -- Segregation. 1
- American literature -- Kentucky. 1
- American wit and humor -- Appalachian Region. 1
- American wit and humor. 1
- Appalachian Festival. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Church history. 1
- Appalachian Region -- Demography. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Economic conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religion. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Religious life and customs. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social conditions. 1
- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Appalachian Studies. 1
- Appalachians (People) -- Migrations. 1
- Authors, American -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Authors, American -- Kentucky -- Biography. 1
- Berea (Ky.) -- Race relations. 1
- Berea College -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- Charities. 1
- Church music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Comedians -- United States. 1
- Country music -- Biography. 1
- Country music -- History. 1
- Country musicians -- United States. 1
- Economic assistance, Domestic -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1
- Education -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Federal aid to regional planning -- Appalachian Region, Southern 1
- Folk music -- Kentucky. 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Humorists, American. 1
- Hymns, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Kentucky -- In literature. 1
- Kentucky--Intellectual life. 1
- Medical care -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Mountain Life and Work 1
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