Kenny Dalsheimer Collection Inventory (#20320)

Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Manuscripts Department

CB#3926, Wilson Library

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890

Phone: 919/962-1345

Fax: 919/962-3594

Email: mss@email.unc.edu

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Processed by

Steven Weiss

Date Completed

February 2001

Encoded by

Steven Weiss

Revisions:

Finding aid updated in July 2003 by Elizabeth Matson.

Descriptive Summary Including Abstract

Title

Kenny Dalsheimer Collection (#20320) 1997-1999

Creator

Dalsheimer, Kenny.

Extent

About 60 items (0.5 linear feet)

Repository

Southern Folklife Collection

Abstract

Filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer (1960-) of Durham, N.C., has made several documentaries, including Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997) and Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999). The collection consists of transcripts and videotapes from Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999) and video masters from Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997). Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues traces the career Durham, N.C., blues musician Richard Trice. Videotapes feature interviews with Trice; trips to where he lived, worked, and performed; and footage of a 1998 blues workshop at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham with Trice and blues musician John Dee Holeman. Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway takes a look at the grassroots of stock car racing with interviews of drivers, family members, and track officials involved in minor league competition.

Administrative Information

Access

RESTRICTED: Copies available only with permission of the donor.

Usage Restrictions

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Provenance

Received from Kenny Dalsheimer of Durham, N.C., on 31 July 2000 (Acc. 98696) and on 14 February 2001 (Acc. 98880).

Online Catalog Terms

African-Americans--North Carolina--Durham.

Blues (Music)--North Carolina--Durham.

Blues musicians--North Carolina.

Dalsheimer, Kenny.

Documentary films--North Carolina.

Durham (N.C.)--History.

Durham (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Durham (N.C.)--Songs and music.

Holeman, John Dee.

Hysjulien, Jamie.

Orange County Speedway (Rougemont, N.C.).

North Carolina--Songs and music.

Stock car racing--North Carolina.

Trice, Richard.

Biographical Note

Filmmaker Kenny Dalsheimer was born 29 May 1960 in Baltimore, Md. In 1982, he received a bachelors of arts from Connecticut College. Dalsheimer moved to Durham, N.C., in 1983 to do graduate work in anthropology at Duke University. Following graduate school, he taught middle school for ten years at the Carolina Friends School before leaving to become a freelance documentary filmmaker. His first effort was Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997), which looks at the grassroots of stock car racing.

Following the success of that film, he was approached by Jamie Hysjulien, a teacher at the Carolina Friends School, who had met blues musician Richard Trice and thought that his connection to Durham's blues scene would be a great subject for a documentary. Dalsheimer and Hysjulien made Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues in 1999. The film traces Trice's life as a blues musician and follows him after he stopped playing the blues for religious reasons.

Collection Overview

The Kenny Dalsheimer collection consists of transcripts and videotapes from the documentary film Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999) and video masters from the documentary film Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997). Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues (1999) traces the career Durham, N.C., blues musician  Richard Trice. Videotapes feature interviews with Trice; trips to where he lived, worked, and performed; and footage of a 1998 blues workshop at the Hayti Heritage Center in Durham with Trice and blues musician John Dee Holeman. Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway (1997) examines the grassroots of stock car racing. Videotapes feature interviews with drivers, family members, and track officials and footage of minor league racing.

Organization of Collection

1. Transcripts
2. Videotapes
2.1. Shine On: Richard Trice and the Bull City Blues, 1999
2.2. Go Fast, Turn Left: Voices from Orange County Speedway, 1997

Series Descriptions

Items Separated

Video tapes (VT-20320/1-45) have been separated.