David Lawrence Menconi Collection Inventory (#20326)
Manuscripts Department, 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/
- Processed by
- Steven Weiss
- Date Completed
- February 2001
- Encoded by
- Steven Weiss
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Descriptive Summary Including Abstract
- Title
- David Lawrence Menconi Collection (#20326) 1984-2000
- Creator
- Menconi, David Lawrence.
- Extent
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- About 50 items (0.5 linear feet)
- Repository
- Southern Folklife Collection
- Abstract
- San Antonio, Tex., native David Menconi became a professional music critic in 1985. He joined the News and Observer newspaper in Raleigh, N.C., in 1991, just as the area was being touted as an up-and-coming music scene. In 2000, Menconi published his first novel, Off the Record. The collection includes interview notes, correspondence, press releases, and biographies, 1984-2000, relating to interviews Menconi conducted with alt-country, folk-rock, and rock and roll musicians from North Carolina and other parts of the South. Among those represented are Whiskeytown, Arrogance, the Backsliders, the Connells, Cracker, Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, Flat Duo Jets, Kevn Kinney, Tift Merritt, and Southern Culture on the Skids.
Administrative Information
- Usage Restrictions
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Terms
- Alternative rock musicians--Southern States.
- Alternative rock music--Southern States.
- Arrogance (Musical group).
- Backsliders (Musical group).
- Connells (Musical group).
- Country music groups--Southern States.
- Country musicians--Southern States.
- Country music--Southern States.
- Cracker (Musical group).
- Easter, Mitch.
- Flat Duo Jets (Musical group).
- Folk-rock music.
- Holsapple, Peter.
- Kinney, Kevn.
- Menconi, David Lawrence.
- Merritt, Tift.
- Music critics--North Carolina.
- North Carolina--Songs and music.
- Popular music--Southern States.
- Rock groups--Southern States.
- Rock musicians--Southern States.
- Rock music--Southern States.
- Southern Culture on the Skids (Musical group).
- Southern States--Songs and music.
- Stamey, Chris.
- Whiskeytown (Musical group).
Biographical Note
San Antonio, Tex., native David Menconi became a professional music critic in 1985. He received his Masters Degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. His thesis examined the discovery and demolition of the Armadillo World Headquarters, a 1970s concert hall.
Menconi joined the News and Observer newspaper in Raleigh, N.C., in 1991 just as the Research Triangle area was being touted as an up-and-coming music scene. In 2000, Menconi published his first novel, Off the Record.
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Music critic David Menconi's collection includes interview notes, correspondence, press releases, and biographies, 1984-2000, relating to interviews Menconi conducted with alt-country, folk-rock, and rock and roll musicians from North Carolina and other parts of the South. Among those represented are Whiskeytown, Arrogance, the Backsliders, the Connells, Cracker, Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, Flat Duo Jets, Kevn Kinney, Tift Merritt, and Southern Culture on the Skids.
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