- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Video of Bobby McMillon, Lenoir, North Carolina, 1989 Aug 21
- Creator:
- Rosenbaum, Art
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia Folklore Society
- Date of Original:
- 1989-08-21
- Subject:
- Folk music--Tennessee
Old-time music--Tennessee
Ballads--Tennessee
Folk songs--Tennessee
Folk music--North Carolina
Old-time music--North Carolina
Ballads--North Carolina
Folk songs--North Carolina
Storytelling--North Carolina--Lenoir - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Caldwell County, 35.95297, -81.54655
United States, North Carolina, Caldwell County, Lenoir, 35.91402, -81.53898
United States, North Carolina, Yancey County, 35.89888, -82.30755
United States, Tennessee, Carter County, 36.29272, -82.12743
United States, Tennessee, Carter County, Elizabethton, 36.34872, -82.21069
United States, Tennessee, Cobb County, 34.029327, -84.405378
United States, Tennessee, Madison County, 35.60814, -88.83847
United States, Tennessee, Mitchell County, 36.027776, -82.149605 - Medium:
- field recordings
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Video of Bobby McMillon performs songs on guitar, banjo and vocals. McMillon plays songs learned from his father's side in Cobb County, Tennessee and his mother's side, who was from Mitchell County, North Carolina. The songs include ballads learned from his aunt in eastern Tennessee between 1905 and 1916, as well as ballads passed down from other family members. Songs include Dickie and Johnson, among others.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-1962
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-1962
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 film : circa 59 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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