Inventory of the Amy Davis Collection, 1997

Collection Number 20287

Southern Folklife Collection, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact Information:

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

URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Descriptive Summary

Repository

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.

Creator

Davis, Amy.

Title

Amy Davis Collection, 1997

Call Number

20287

Extent

About 90 items

Linear Feet: 1.0

Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access

This collection has restrictions to access. Please see details below or contact the Manuscripts Department for more information.

Usage Restrictions

Use of audio materials may require production of listening copies.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Amy Davis of Chapel Hill, N.C., in August 1997 (Acc. 97187).

Processing Information

Processed by: Burgin Matthews, December 2002.

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

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Amy Davis Collection #20287, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice

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

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Baptists--North Carolina.

Carteret County (N.C.)--History.

Carteret County (N.C.)--Photographs.

Carteret County (N.C.)--Religion.

Carteret County (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Carteret County (N.C.)--Songs abd music.

Church buildings--North Carolina--Carteret County.

Church buildings--Photographs.

Church music--North Carolina.

Davis, Amy.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--Church history.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--History.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--Photographs.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--Religion.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--Social life and customs.

Harkers Island (N.C.)--Songs and music.

Holiness churches--North Carolina.

Methodist Church--North Carolina.

Methodists--North Carolina.

Mormon Church--North Carolina.

Mormons--North Carolina.

Music in churches.

Music--North Carolina.

Musicians--North Carolina.

North Carolina--Religion.

North Carolina--Songs and music.

Pentecostal churches--North Carolina.

Sacred music--North Carolina.

Wesleyan Church--North Carolina.

Biographical Note

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.

Collection Overview

The collection includes field recordings on audio cassette 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. Audio cassettes 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.

Arrangement of Collection

1. Audio cassettes
2. Papers

Items Separated

Cassette tapes (FS-6173 - FS-6212)

Detailed Description of the Collection