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Collection Number: 20287

Collection Title: Amy Davis Collection, 1997

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Size 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately About 90 items items)
Abstract Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and, in 1998, received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. She worked in the Soutern Folklife Collection, 1999-2001. The collection includes field recordings on audiocassette and interviews from Amy Davis's 1997 Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented the musical traditions of worship communities on the Carteret County, N.C., island. The project featured musicians, church leaders, and congregants from Wesleyan, Holiness, Methodist, Mormon, and Baptist churches. Audiocassettes contain interviews with Harkers Island singers and musicians and recordings of church services and musical performances at churches, the Sea Level Rest Home, and the homes of musicians. While the bulk of the collection documents sacred musical traditions, tapes of James and Tommy Rose contain performances of secular country music, including songs by Hank Williams and Gene Autry. Papers include field notes on interviews conducted and services visited; transctipts of interviews; an index of songs recorded; contact sheets for photographs related to the project; and short descriptions of photograph contents. Field notes are arranged by church and include descriptions of recording situations and some biographical information on the performers. Photographs document members of Harkers Island congregations; church services and social functions; church interiors and exteriors; performances by church musicians and singers; Clinton Nelson's recording studio; and Harkers Island scenes, including Dora Willis's soft shell crab tanks and of Alex Willis's boatworks.
Creator Davis, Amy.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Amy Davis Collection #20287, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Amy Davis of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1997 (Acc. 97187).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Processed by: Burgin Matthews, December 2002.

Encoded by: Burgin Matthews, December 2002, and by Alison Waldenberg, August 2006.

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Folklorist and musician Amy Davis grew up in Millerton, N.Y., and spent several years in the Northeast, playing and recording with the Little River String Band and two Cajun bands, the Swamproots and Dirty Rice. She moved to North Carolina in 1992 and in 1998 received her masters degree in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has recorded a cassette with Kentucky fiddler Herstel Flynn and has also performed with the Hushpuppies, a North Carolina-based old-time group. She conducted fieldwork for the Folklife Section of the North Carolina Arts Council's Blue Ridge Music Trail Project and researched and written about country music communities and traditions. In 1997, she conducted the Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented musical traditions among the churches of the Carteret County, N.C., island. From 1999 to 2001, she Davis was folklife assistant at the Southern Folklife Collection.

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The collection includes field recordings on audiocassette and interviews from musician Amy Davis's 1997 Harkers Island Sacred Music Project, which documented the musical traditions of worship communities on Harkers Island, N.C., in Carteret County, N.C. The project featured musicians, church leaders, and congregants from Wesleyan, Holiness, Methodist, Mormon, and Baptist churches. Audiocassettes contain interviews with Harkers Island singers and musicians and recordings of church services and musical performances at churches, the Sea Level Rest Home, and the homes of musicians. While the bulk of the collection documents sacred musical traditions, tapes of James Rose and Tommy Rose contain performances of secular country music, including songs by Hank Williams and Gene Autry. Papers include field notes on interviews conducted and services visited; transctipts of interviews; an index of songs recorded; contact sheets for photographs related to the project; and short descriptions of photograph contents. Field notes are arranged by church and include descriptions of recording situations and some biographical information on the performers. Photographs document members of Harkers Island congregations; church services and social functions; church interiors and exteriors; performances by church musicians and singers; Clinton Nelson's recording studio; and Harkers Island scenes, including Dora Willis's soft shell crab tanks and of Alex Willis's boatworks.

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Contents list

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40 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Audiocassette titles include Davis's original "HI" tape numbers.

Videotape VT-20287/1

Mountain Legacy

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6173

Interview with Polly Davis. HI001

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6174

James Allen Rose and Tommy Rose. 4 February 1997. Tape 1. HI002

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6175

James Allen Rose and Tommy Rose. 4 February 1997. Tape 2. HI003

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6176

James Allen Rose and Tommy Rose. 4 February 1997. Tape 3. HI004

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6177

Clinton Nelson Singers. 5 February 1997. HI005

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6178

Clinton Nelson Singers. 7 April 1997. HI006

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6179

Free Grace Wesleyan Church service, with the Reverend Curt Nelson. 9 February 1997. HI007

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6180

Interview with Madge Guthrie. 10 February 1997. HI008

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6181

Singing at Sea Level Rest Home. 16 February 1997. HI009

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6182

Interview with Ann Rose. 18 February 1997. HI010

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6183

Interview with the Reverend Manley Rose, Jr. 19 February 1997. HI011

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6184

Grace Holiness Church service. 19 February 1997. HI012

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6185

Grace Holiness Church service. 23 February 1997. HI013

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6186

Interview with Mattie Brooks. Tape 1. 25 February 1997. HI014

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6187

Interview with Mattie Brooks. Tape 2. 25 February 1997. HI015

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6188

Free Grace Wesleyan Church service. 2 March 1997. HI016

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6189

Refuge Fellowship service. Tape 1. 2 March 1997. HI017

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6190

Refuge Fellowship service. Tape 2. 2 March 1997. HI018

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6191

Pentecostal Holiness revival service. Tape 1. 4 March 1997. HI019

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6192

Pentecostal Holiness revival service. Tape 2. 4 March 1997. HI020

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6193

Interview with Floyd Gookins and Bessie Gookins. 5 March 1997. HI021

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6194

Interview with Edna Brooks Scott. 12 March 1997. HI022

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6195

Mormon Church Service, with Elder Perry and the Girls' Choir. 12 March 1997. HI023

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6196

United Methodist Church service. 23 March 1997. HI024

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6197

Interview with Clinton Nelson. Tape 1. 26 March 1997, 7 April 1997. HI025

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6198

Interview with Clinton Nelson. Tape 2. 7 April 1997. HI026

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6199

Interview with Elaine Yeomans. 27 March 1997. HI027

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6200

Baptist Church, Good Friday service. 28 March 1997. HI028

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6201

Pentecostal Holiness Easter service. 30 March 1997. HI029

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6202

Interview with the Reverend Clayton Guthrie and Ellen Guthrie. 30 March 1997. HI030

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6203

Grace Holiness singing service, Easter. Tape 1. 30 March 1997. HI031

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6204

Grace Holiness singing service, Easter. Tape 2. 30 March 1997. HI032

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6205

Interview with Hopie Smith, Dara Willis, and Mary Rose. 9 April 1997. HI033

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6206

Interview with Girls' Chorus members, Mormon Church. 9 April 1997. HI034

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6207

Interview with Cathy Rose Gillikin. 10 April 1997. HI035

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6208

James Allen Rose and Tommy Gray Rose. 11 April 1997. HI036

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6209

Mormon Church service. 20 April 1997. HI037.

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6210

Methodist Church Service. 20 April 1997. HI038

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6211

Interview with Annie Francis. 23 April 1997. HI039

Audiocassette

SFC Audio Cassette FS-20287/6212

Lighthouse Chapel service. 27 April 1997. HI040

Audiocassette

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About 50 items.

Folder 1

Field notes

Folder 2

Transcripts

Folder 3

Song index

Folder 4

Contact sheets

Folder 5

Photograph logs

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