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Joe Thompson, the African American fiddler from Orange County, is the subject of this 2004 production by Iris Thompson Chapman with Linda DiLorenzo, Alton Chewning and Calvin Allen. Topics include string band and folk music in North Carolina and Thompson's own life, 1918 to 2012. It is part of the library's Wall Local History Collection, and a note flags it as audio or visual special collections material.
Bradley J. Lambert's study of the fiddler Joe Thompson and the Black communities of the rural Piedmont, covering music and daily life in Orange County in the early twentieth century. Seventy-seven leaves with a bibliography, completed in 1998. Topics include African American musicians in the county and African American history there.
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