Restrictions to Access

Use of video materials may require production of listening copies.

Restrictions to Use

No usage restrictions.

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 Nancy Kalow Collection #20113, Southern Folklife Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Nancy Kalow of Durham, N.C., in November 1992 (Acc. #92127).

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.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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

• African American musicians--North Carolina.
• Babson, Walter Raleigh, 1900-1987.
• Blues (Music)--North Carolina.
• Burt, Thomas, 1900-
• Cahan, Andrew.
• Cole, Calvin.
• Dickens, Bert.
• Fiddle tunes--North Carolina.
• Fiddlers--North Carolina.
• Field recordings--North Carolina.
• Folk festivals--North Carolina.
• Folk music--North Carolina.
• Folklore--North Carolina.
• Folklorists--North Carolina.
• Gerrard, Alice, 1934-
• Henegar, Steven.
• Higgs, George, 1930-
• Kalow, Nancy.
• Musicians--North Carolina.
• North Carolina--Folklore.
• North Carolina--Songs and music.
• Old-time music.
• Powell, James Bud.
• Rector, John, fiddler.
• Rutherford, Enoch.
• Storytellers--North Carolina.
• String band music.
• Thompson, Joe, 1918-
• Thompson, Odell, 1911-
• Uncle Eli's quilting bee.

• Wayne Martin and Nancy Kalow Collection (#20047)

North Carolina folklorist Nancy Kalow taught documentary video production at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. She receieved an A.B. degree from Harvard University in 1982 and an M.A. in folklore from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1999. She directed the 1988 documentary Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco and was a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, 2003-2004, at the University of North Carolina's University Center for International Studies in Chapel Hill.

The collection comprises 24 8mm videotapes of various aspects of North Carolina folklife recorded by videographer and folklorist Nancy Kalow between 1987 and 1991. There are videotapes of traditional North Carolina fiddlers that Kalow made in association with traditional music legend and founder of The Old-Time Herald Alice Gerrard as part of a project for the North Carolina Arts Council. These fiddlers include Thomas Burt, Calvin Cole, Bert Dickens, and Enoch Rutherford. There is a series of interviews with and demonstrations of technique by musician Walter Raleigh Babson, which are moderated by traditonal music collector, educator, and practitioner Andy Cahan. There are tapes of performances by African American string band musicians Joe Thompson and Odell Thompson, Piedmont blues musicians George Higgs and James Bud Powell, and traditional musician John Rector. There are also tapes documenting a 1987 performance at the Forest Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by storyteller Steven Henegar and Uncle Eli's Quilting Bee, an annual event that has taken place in Alamance County since 1931 and which Kalow recorded on 7 April 1988 at Eli Whitney Recreation Center.

• Videotapes V8M 157-181
• Tape log filed in Field Notes folder #996