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Banjo music -- Kentucky.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Blanche Coldiron Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0133 SAA 133
Abstract Born in Wolfe County, KY, in 1922, Blanche (Hurt) Coldiron moved with her family to Powell County when she was 6 years old.   At nine years old, after listening to Uncle Dave Macon play banjo on the Grand Old Opry radio show, Blanche taught herself to play the banjo. She played the banjo using five different picking styles including, her customary style, the “claw hammer.”  In addition to the banjo, Coldiron played the bass, guitar, fiddle, and mandolin.  Beginning her music career during...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-2007

Buell Kazee Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0054 SAA 054
Abstract Kazee was born August 29, 1900 in the quite rural Burton Fork area of Magoffin County, Kentucky. Baptist Christianity, home made music, and classical commercial recordings were important influences in Kazee’s upbringing. He was singing and playing banjo by age 5 and was ordained to preach at age 17. After finishing high school at Magoffin Baptist Institute, he went on to Georgetown College to major in English, Greek, and Latin, and study voice. There he came to a stronger appreciation of...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1946-1979

Fourth Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention

 Collection
Identifier: BCA 0298
Scope and Contents Fourth Annual Renfro Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention July 5, 6, 7, 1974 Contestans: Tilly Adkins, Willie Adkins, Alfred Bailey, Bill Sparks, Ed Blake, Bobbie Blays, Howard Blays, Bluegrass Rejects, Bluegrass Travelers, Franklin Bowles, Arthur Breeze, Opal Breeze, Terry Bronck, Richard Campbell Barbara Coons, Coleman Cornelison, Tex Corpy, David Edmundson, Suzanne Edmundson, Howdy Forrester, Frank Gardner, Get Togethers, Kelly...
Dates: July 5-7, 1974

John F. Smith Traditional Music Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0006 SAA 005
Abstract John F. Smith taught in the Berea College Normal School.  As part of his Composition and Rhetoric course, Smith asked students to write down the names of banjo and fiddle songs and tunes known to them in their home districts of eastern Kentucky and Tennessee.   The results are a large, varied body of material that includes ballads, songs, fiddle and banjo tunes, and games.  Several students also included lists of musical instruments present in their home communities and...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1915-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1940

John Harrod Kentucky Fiddle Music Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0089 SAA 089
Abstract

The recordings preserve the singing and playing of several dozen musicians mostly from the eastern half of the state. Many of them have since passed on and in several instances the tunes and playing styles documented date well back into the 1800s. Predominant tune sources for the fiddlers recorded include minstrel stage music and the dance music of Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, and in some instances, African American traditions.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1990

Kentucky Traditional and Early Country Music Oral History Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0265
Abstract

Audio and video recorded interviews and performances with Kentucky traditional musicians and singers some of whom had radio performing careers mainly during the 1930s and 1940s. The interviews were conducted at various times over the period 1969-2008, by Reubein Powell, Ray Nemec, Loyal Jones, Stephen Green, Susan Eacker, and Harry Rice.

Dates: Other: Majority of material found in 1969-2008

Lee Knight Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0132 SAA 132
Abstract

Lee Knight grew up in the Adirondack Mountain area of New York State. He moved to North Carolina as the result of an interest in the Anglo, European and Native American music and stories of the Southern Appalachians developed during college. In addition to the Adirondacks and Appalachians, he has collected songs and stories from other parts of the world, including England, Scotland, Central Asia, Columbia and the Amazon region of Peru.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1970-1980

William Sears Home and Field Recordings Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: BCA 0130 SAA 130
Scope and Contents This collection consists of (1) video and audio home recordings, (2) radio programs 1950s - 1970s, and (3) video field recordings, 2008, documenting a wide range of singers and instrumentalist from Whitley, Knox, and McCreary counties, Kentucky and just over the border in Tennessee. Especially notable are performances by fiddlers Claude Harmon and Marion Pridemore, and numerous other local musicians on the Country Music Express radio programs. ...
Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1950-2008