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Collection Number: 20025

Collection Title: Tom Davenport Papers, 1973-1987

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Size 5 items
Abstract Beginning in 1976, documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport and Davenport Films began a collaboration with Daniel Patterson and the Folklore Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that resulted in The American Traditional Culture series of documentary films. The collection contains posters advertising Davenport's productions A Singing Stream, about African Americans in North Carolina, and It Ain't City Music, about country music in rural America. Also included is a poster advertising Performing Like a Family: Oral Histories of Southern Cotton Mill Life and a reproduction of a page from the 29 July 1938 issue of News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in the form of a poster.
Creator Davenport, Tom.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
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 Tom Davenport Posters #20025, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Source unknown.
Sensitive Materials Statement
Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.
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Beginning in 1976, documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport began a collaboration with Daniel Patterson and the Folklore Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that resulted in The American Traditional Culture series of documentary films, which included Born For Hard Luck (1976), Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains (1980), A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle (1986), The Ballad of Frankie Silver (1998), and When My Work is Over: The Life and Stories of Louise Anderson (1998).

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The collection contains posters advertising documentary filmmaker Tom Davenport's productions A Singing Stream, about African Americans in North Carolina, and It Ain't City Music, about country music in rural America. Also included is a poster advertising Performing Like a Family: Oral Histories of Southern Cotton Mill Life and a reproduction of a page from the 29 July 1938 issue of News and Observer of Raleigh, N.C., in the form of a poster.

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Processing Information

Processed by: James McGlothlin, May 2008

Encoded by: James McGlothlin, May 2008

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