Audiovisual Materials

Appalachian Collection

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    Appalachian Oral History Project Interviews

    In 1973, representatives from Appalachian State University collected interviews from local citizen to create a wealth of data for those interested in researching the Appalachian Region. The project was known as the “Appalachian Oral History Project” (AOHP), and became a consortium with Alice Lloyd College and Lees Junior College (now Hazard County Community College) both in Kentucky, Emory and Henry College in Virginia, and ASU. This digital collection contains selections from the approximately 600 audiocassette recordings. 

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    Blue Ridge Views News Videos

    This digital collection consists primarily of videos about Appalachian musicians and festivals including segments featuring Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, and Ralph Stanley. Chuck Hemrick produced this popular weekly news feature focused on local cultural traditions, which were part of the Friday evening news, from February 1990 to September 1993.  Although many videos are music-oriented, others focus on molasses, the Appalachian Trail, hiking, cheese making, pottery, gee haw whimmy diddles, grist mills, and art, among other topics.

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    Carlton and Charles Haney Recordings

    This collection includes reel-to-reel and audio cassette recordings of Haney's bluegrass festivals.

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    Jack Guy Folk Music Recordings

    This digital collection contains the recordings, which Jack Guy personally collected of northwestern North Carolina performers.

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    Johnny Rhymer Music

    The 11 items in this digital collection are from the Johnny Rhymer Music and Papers (AC-825), Series 2 and contains original audiocassettes and phonograph records of 1940s country and bluegrass singers and pickers.

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    Mountain Home Music, Inc. Collection

    Mountain Home Music, Inc. is a non-profit corporation strives to educate and build community through the arts. Many local Appalachian people and groups have performed for Mountain Home Music throughout the years. The contents of the collection are dated primarily in 1994-1995 and generally include broadcasts and recordings. This digital collection is only a portion of the Mountain Home Music materials in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection.

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    W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collection

    William Amos “Doc” Abrams (1905-1991) was chairman of the English Department at Appalachian State Teacher’s College (ASTC) from 1932 to 1946. In the 1930s, Dr. Abrams built a reputation as an enthusiastic collector, scholar and promoter of North Carolina folklore. The W. Amos Abrams Folksong Collection, presented here as part of the Documenting Appalachia digital initiative, consists of approximately 1,100 document pages that comprise some 400 individual song titles, most of which have multiple variants, as well as field recordings from 1938 to 1946.

University Archives

Stock Car Racing Collection

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    Hank Schoolfield Universal Racing Network Collection

    Renowned racing publisher, publicist, and broadcaster Hank Schoolfield (1930-2008) donated original recordings of NASCAR races to the Stock Car Racing Collection. The collection of open-reel tapes are radio race broadcasts from the Universal Racing Network, which Schoolfield owned. URN was the first independent radio network to broadcast races.