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William R. Ferris

William R. Ferris joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore. At Chapel Hill he taught a Southern Music course and worked on documentary films.

Source: UNC Libraries: William R. Ferris Collection finding aid

1942– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as William Ferris → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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  1. William Ferris receives the Charles Frankel Prize The National Endowment for the Humanities gave William R. Ferris the Charles Frankel Prize, the award now called the National Humanities Medal, as director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and a scholar of the American South.Search the index · National Endowment for the Humanities: Charles Frankel Prize
  2. William R. Ferris joins UNC as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South Folklorist William R. Ferris joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2002 as senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South, professor of history and adjunct professor in the Curriculum in Folklore.Search the index · UNC Libraries: William R. Ferris Collection finding aid
  3. John Dee Holeman plays a free blues concert at Graham Memorial John Dee Holeman, accompanied by Billy Stevens, played a free noon concert at Graham Memorial on September 30, 2004, in the Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence's Thursdays on the Terrace series. Many of that semester's concerts tied in with William Ferris's course on Southern music. People: William R. FerrisSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, September 30, 2004, p. 12 (Blues artists to grace terrace)

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Hillbilly music sources and symbols collection, 1965, 2003

Hillbilly music sources and symbols · 1965

Two dates only, 1965 and 2003, cover this collection in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20378-z. Topics include country and folk music discography, popular music and culture in the South, Guthrie Meade's 'Country music sources', the film 'O brother, where art thou?', and names including Archie Green, Alan Jabbour, Robert Cantwell, Benjamin Filene, Richard Spottswood and William Ferris.

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  • Graham Memorial University buildings and grounds · Chapel Hill · 1 event here

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