Inventory of the Bill C. Malone Collection, 2000

Collection Number 20315

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Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Collection Information
block Descriptive Summary
block Administrative Information
block Online Catalog Headings
block Biographical Note
block Collection Overview
plus Detailed Description of the Collection
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection.
Creator
Malone, Bill C.
Title
Bill C. Malone Collection, 2000
Call Number
20315
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
Items: 28
Linear Feet: 0.5
Abstract
Bill C. Malone, professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, is known for his cultural and historical studies of country music. During the spring 2000 semester, Malone served as the first Lehman Brady Chair Professor, a joint position shared between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.
The collection includes audiotapes of interviews with Bill C. Malone conducted by by David Whisnant, Henry Armijo, and Wells Tower in 2000; a videotape of "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work," a public singing lecture given by Malone at the UNC-Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000 (text copy included); and audiotapes of lectures from Malone's course on "Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music" (syllabus included), which he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in spring 2000. Guest performers/lecturers in the course included Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones. Topics included Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women.

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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 and video materials may require production of listening or viewing copies.
Acquisitions Information
Received from the Folklore Archives, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in March 2000 (Acc. 98601), from Henry Armijo in April 2000 (Acc. 98602), and Tes Thraves in May 2000 (Acc. 98637).
Processing Information
Processed by: Sarah Starnes and Elizabeth Matson, July 2003
Encoded by: Alison Waldenberg, August 2006
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Bill C. Malone Collection #20315, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

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

Armijo, Henry.
Bluegrass music.
Blues (Music).
Country music.
Country music--History and criticism.
Country musicians.
Dickens, Hazel.
Gospel music.
Henry, Murphy.
Hinojosa, Tish.
Hispanic Americans--Music.
Jones, Carol Elizabeth, 1960-
Malone, Bill C.
Popular music--History and criticism.
Rockabilly music.
Smith, Betty N.
Tower, Wells.
Whisnant, David E., 1938-
Women country musicians.
Women musicians.
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Biographical Note

Bill C. Malone received his Ph.D. in 1965 at the University of Texas. Professor emeritus of history at Tulane University, Malone is known for his cultural and historical studies of country music. He has hosted a weekly radio show, "Back to the Country," on WORT-FM (89.9) in Madison, Wisc. His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Stars of Country Music (co-edited with Judith McCulloh); Southern Music/American Music; and Singing Cowboys and Musical Mountaineers: Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music. During the spring semester of 2000, he served as the first Lehman Brady Chair Professor, an endowed position shared between the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes audiotapes of interviews with historian of country music Bill C. Malone conducted by David Whisnant, Henry Armijo, and Wells Tower in 2000; a videotape of "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work," a public singing lecture given by Malone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000 (text copy included); and audiotapes of lectures from Malone's course on "Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music" (syllabus included), which he taught at UNC-Chapel Hill and Duke University in spring 2000. Guest performers/lecturers in the course included Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones. Topics included Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women.

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Arrangement of Collection

1. Interviews with Bill C. Malone
2. Public Lecture by Bill C. Malone
3. Class Lectures by Bill C. Malone
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Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Interviews with Bill C. Malone, 2000.

5 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
While serving as the Lehman Brady Chair Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Duke University during the spring semester of 2000, Bill C. Malone was interviewed on the topic of country music by Wells Tower for the Center for Documentary Studies' debut issue of Document; by Henry Armijo on the radio station WXYC; and by David Whisnant, Professor of English (now Emeritus) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Audiocassette FS-6119
Interview with Bill Malone by David Whisnant, 2 February 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6120
Interview with Bill Malone by David Whisnant, 2 February 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6121
Interview with Bill Malone by David Whisnant, 16 February 2000
Audiocassette FS-6122
Interview with Bill Malone by Henry Armijo on WXYC, 26 March 2000
Folder 1
Document, volume 1, number 1.

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2. Public Lecture by Bill C. Malone, 2000.

1 item.
Hi-8 visual recording of "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work," a singing lecture given by Bill C. Malone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on 29 March 2000. A copy of Malone's text for this lecture is also available.
Videotape VT-20315/1
"Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work," a singing lecture by Bill C. Malone, 29 March 2000
Folder 2
Text of Bill C. Malone's singing lecture, "Take This Job and Shove It: Country Music and Work"

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3. Class Lectures by Bill C. Malone, 2000.

20 items.
Arrangement: chronological.
As the Lehman Brady Chair Professor during the spring 2000 semester, Bill C. Malone taught "Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music" at both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University. The majority of his class lectures were recorded. Guest performers/lecturers Betty Smith, Hazel Dickens, Murphy Henry, Tish Hinojosa, and Carol Elizabeth Jones were also recorded. Topics include Hillbilly Women and Blues Women: 1920-1933; The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters; Women in Country Music: 1933-1945; Women and the Folk Revival; Women in Country Music: 1945-1963; Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin; Bluegrass Women; Gospel and Blues Women; The Women of Top 40 Country Music; and Tejano Women. The syllabus for the class at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill lists the required readings, assignments, and complete schedule of lecture topics and guests.
Audiocassette FS-6123
Class Lecture: Hillbilly Women and Blues Women, 2 February 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6124
Class Lecture: Hillbilly Women and Blues Women, 2 February 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6125
Class Lecture: The Women of Protest: Aunt Molly Jackson and her Sisters, 9 February 2000
Audiocassette FS-6126
Class Lecture: Women and the Folk Revival with Guest Lecturer/Performer Betty Smith, 23 February 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6127
Class Lecture: Women and the Folk Revival with Guest Lecturer/Performer Betty Smith, 23 February 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6128
Class Lecture: Women in Country Music, 1945-63 (Molly O'Day, Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, and Patsy Cline), 1 March 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6129
Class Lecture: Women in Country Music, 1945-63 (Molly O'Day, Rose Maddox, Kitty Wells, and Patsy Cline), 1 March 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6130
Class Lecture: Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin, 8 March 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6131
Class Lecture: Rockabilly Women and Janis Joplin, 8 March 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6132
Class Lecture: Bluegrass Women with Guest Lecturers/Performers Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerard, and Murphy Henry, 22 March 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6133
Class Lecture: Bluegrass Women with Guest Lecturers/Performers Hazel Dickens, Alice Gerard, and Murphy Henry, 22 March 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6134
Class Lecture: Gospel and Blues Women, with Guest Lecturer/Performer Etta Baker, 4 April 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6135
Class Lecture: Gospel and Blues Women, with Guest Lecturer/Performer Etta Baker, 4 April 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6136
Class Lecture: The Women of Top 40 Country Music, 19 April 2000
Audiocassette FS-6137
Class Lecture: Tejano Women with Guest Lecturer/Performer Tish Hinojosa, 25 April 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6138
Class Lecture: Tejano Women with Guest Lecturer/Performer Tish Hinojosa, 25 April 2000, tape 2 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6139
Class Lecture with Guest Lecturer/Performer Carol Elizabeth Jones, 2 May 2000, tape 1 of 2
Audiocassette FS-6140
Class Lecture with Guest Lecturer/Performer Carol Elizabeth Jones, 2 May 2000, tape 2 of 2
Folder 3
Syllabus for "Women and the Making of Southern Folk and Country Music"

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