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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

Symposium on Rural Hymnody Collection, 1974-1982

 Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.02
Abstract The Symposium on Rural Hymnody was hosted by Berea College on April 27-29, 1979.  Follow the links in the Series 4 box list to listen to the recordings of Symposium presentations, performances, and a worship service.  Presentations were given by seventeen participants.  The symposium also featured performances by the A.L. Phipps Family of Knox County, Kentucky and the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers of Dale County, Alabama. The group also traveled to Floyd County, Kentucky, to attend the...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 - 1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1978-1982

William H. Tallmadge Baptist Hymnody Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0035 SAA 033
Abstract Tallmadge earned degrees in Music at Oberlin College (Ohio), in 1940 (B.M.) and 1946 (M.M.).  From 1949-1976 he was on the faculty of State University College in Buffalo, New York where his research and teaching concentrated on both Anglo and African American popular musical genres. He continued this non-classical focus at Berea (1976-1984) with course work on the history of Jazz and its relation to newer musical trends such as Rock, Soul, and Disco.  Articles published as a result of his...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1968-1980