Southern Folklife Collection
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[edit] Address and Contact Info
Address: Southern Folklife Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill, CB #3926, Wilson Library, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514-8890
Telephone & fax: (919) 962-1345; (919) 962-3594
Website: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/index.html
Principal contacts for the collection: Contact reference and curatorial staff at mss@email.unc.edu
[edit] Hours and Usage Restrictions
The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) is open for research in the Wilson Library on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus. Hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, and 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. Please note that we cannot page new material after 5:30 on weekdays and after 12:30 on Saturdays. The Collection is closed on University holidays.
SFC materials are non-circulating and may be used onsite at the Wilson Library, where there are facilities for listening to recordings and viewing videotapes. Consultation with a staff member is highly recommended. We suggest that you contact the SFC prior to your visit to ensure that listening/viewing copies of the recordings you would like to research are available.
Copying of materials may be limited by copyright, donor restrictions, or the condition of the items.
[edit] Online Catalogs and Finding Aids
A large percentage of the Southern Folklife Collection's holdings are described in online finding aids and bibliographic utilities posted to the SFC's website at http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/sfc1/index.html
Researchers should also search for materials using UNC Chapel Hill Library's online catalog at http://www.lib.unc.edu/
[edit] Collection Summary
The Southern Folklife Collection (SFC) ranks as one of the nation's foremost archival resources for the study of American folk music and popular culture. SFC holdings extensively document all forms of southern musical and oral traditions across the entire spectrum of individual and community expressive arts, as well as mainstream media production.
Centered around the John Edwards Memorial Collection, the SFC is especially rich in materials documenting the emergence of old-time, country-western, hillbilly, bluegrass, blues, gospel, Cajun and zydeco musics. There is also extensive documentation of the folk revival movement reflecting the tremendous interest in traditional music that has blossomed since the late 1950s. Photographs, recordings, ephemera, periodicals, and manuscript materials trace the rise of folk and bluegrass festivals in the United States; promote the study of folksong clubs, coffeehouses, fan clubs, and grassroots organizations; and chronicle the output of recording companies.
The SFC contains over 200,000 sound recordings, including cylinders, acetate discs, wire recordings, 78 rpm and 45 rpm discs, LPs, cassettes, CDs, and open reel tapes. Moving image materials include over 3,000 video recordings and 18 million feet of motion picture film. Other materials include thousands of photographs, song folios, posters, manuscript materials, ephemeral items, and research files, as well as an exceptionally strong collection of discographical materials for the 78 rpm era.
