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Patterson took his MA (1955) and PhD (1959) in English at UNC and taught there for more than three decades. His citation for the university's 2020 Distinguished Alumnus Award credits him with reviving Carolina's academic folklore program and laying the foundation of its archive of southern traditional song and folklife.
Source: UNC Faculty Governance: 2020 Distinguished Alumna and Alumnus Award citations
Also found in catalogs as Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins) Patterson.
1928– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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A 1968 study of the Pickwick Theater in Chapel Hill during the years 1915 to 1920, prepared by V. A. Hill and Scott Bradley with Daniel W. Patterson. It belongs with the history of theaters in Chapel Hill and is a source on early film going in the town around the First World War.
Broadcast recordings of North Carolina folk music assembled in 1976 by the folklorist Daniel W. Patterson, 105 items in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20105. Topics include old-time and bluegrass playing, fiddle tunes, gospel and African American music, and Primitive Baptist hymn singing, with Tommy Jarrell, Dellie Norton and Cas Wallin named. The programs tie to WUNC in Chapel Hill and to the Festival for the Eno.
Material from the Sounds of the South conference on the collecting and collections of southern traditional music, which met at Chapel Hill in 1989, in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20115-z. Archie Green, Alan Jabbour, Norm Cohen, Cecelia Conway, Alice Gerrard and Daniel W. Patterson are represented, along with the university library and its folklife collection.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928-.
Records of the folklore program within American studies at Chapel Hill, 1973 to 2018, about 1,800 items in 3 linear feet, University Archives at UNC, collection 40362. Oral histories are part of the material, including work on public response to the September 11 attacks of 2001. Daniel W. Patterson, Glenn Hinson, Allen Tullos and Tom Davenport Films are represented.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928-.
Folklore papers of Daniel W. Patterson and Beverly Bush Patterson, dated 1775 to 2018 with the bulk from 1964 to 2001, approximately 8,900 items in fifty six linear feet in the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC, collection 20026. Photographs, posters, songbooks and tune books are among the forms. Topics include folk song and sacred music, Shaker religious life, and singers and scholars including Bobby McMillon and Hugh McGraw.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Patterson, Daniel W. (Daniel Watkins), 1928-.
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