Folder 78

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection is comprised of correspondence, notes, church association minutes, hymnbooks, sound recordings, and photographs compiled by William H. Tallmadge in the process of his study of Old Regular, Primitive, and United Baptist hymnody in eastern Kentucky, western North Carolina, and western Virginia during the 1960s and 1970s. He also recorded African American shape note singing in Alabma, eastern Kentucky ballad singing and performances from a Virginia fiddlers'...