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Collection Overview
| Size | About 25 items (2.0 linear feet) |
| Abstract | Molly Stouten, artist, art educator, and musician, of Greensboro, N.C. The collection contains a handmade book by Stouten illustrating the traditional folk ballad Omie Wise and 23 audio field tapes of traditional Appalachian music. One of 15 of its kind, the book includes eleven intaglio prints with the text of the ballad set in linotype. Also included are slides and other materials relating to the book. The field tapes are from several visits and a 1992 residency Stouten did in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. They document musicians, including fiddlers and traditional singers, mostly from Jamestown, Tenn.; Monticello, Ky.; and Fentress County, Tenn. Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport is prominently featured. Also appearing on the tapes are John Doss, Merta Doss, Nancy Hicks Winningham, Charlie Acuff, Clyde Troxell, Ralph Troxell, and Virgil Anderson. |
| Creator | Stouten, Molly. |
| Language | English. |
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Biographical Information
An artist, art educator, and musician, Molly Stouten was born in Buffalo, N.Y. She received a BFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology School for American Craftsmen in 1975, teaching certification from Nazareth College of Rochester, and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 1996. Since 1985, Stouten has taught art to all grade levels in New Hampshire, Vermont, and North Carolina. A singer and multi-instrumentalist, she began playing traditional Appalachian string band music in 1972 and was a founding member of the Thompkins County Horse Flies string band. She has also been a member of the Swamp Root string band of Rochester, N.Y., and the Hushpuppies in North Carolina. In 1992, Stouten traveled to the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky for musical research. She relocated to Greensboro, N.C., in 1997. She teaches art at the Canterbury School, Wake Forest University, and Guilford College.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains a handmade book by Molly Stouten illustrating the traditional folk ballad "Omie Wise" and 23 audio field tapes of traditional Appalachian music. One of 15 of its kind, the book includes eleven intaglio prints with the text of the ballad set in linotype. Also included are slides and other materials relating to the book. The field tapes are from several visits and a 1992 residency Stouten did in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. They document musicians, including fiddlers and traditional singers, mostly from Jamestown, Tenn.; Monticello, Ky.; and Fentress County, Tenn. Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport is prominently featured. Also appearing on the tapes are John Doss, Marta Doss, Nancy Hicks Winningham, Charlie Acuff, Clyde Troxell, Ralph Troxell, and Virgil Anderson.
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Series 1. Omie Wise Book, 1995.
Handmade book by Molly Stouten illustrating the traditional folk ballad "Omie Wise," which she made in 1995 as an MFA project at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. One of 15 of its kind, the book includes eleven intaglio prints with the text of the ballad set in linotype. Also included are slides and other materials relating to the book. Stouten's article "Omie Wise: The Ballad as History" and reprints of her illustrations were published in the Old Time Herald in spring 1997.
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"Omie Wise" book #20260, Series: "1. Omie Wise Book, 1995. " Folder 1 |
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Slides, description, and text from colophon #20260, Series: "1. Omie Wise Book, 1995. " Folder 2 |
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Series 2. Field tapes of Kentucky and Tennessee Fiddlers and Singers, 1991-1995.
Twenty-three audio tapes from several visits and a 1992 residency Molly Stouten did in the Cumberland Plateau region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Stouten made contact with the musicians through folklorist Bobby Fulcher and presented musicians at weekly square dances at Pickett State Park. The tapes document fiddlers and traditional singers, mostly from the Jamestown, Tenn.; Monticello, Ky.; and Fentress County, Tenn., area. Kentucky fiddler Clyde Davenport is prominently featured.
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Items Separated
Items separated include sound recordings (FS-2162 - FS-2184).
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