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THE CENTER FOR
POPULAR MUSIC, MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY,
MURFREESBORO,
TN
“TENNESSEE
VALLEY OLD TIME FIDDLERS CONVENTION” COLLECTION 15-012
Creator:
Wells,
Paul F.
Type of Material:
Contact
List, Letter, Newspaper Program, Adjudication Materials, Contest Rules
Physical Description:
.05 linear
feet of manuscript materials
Dates:
2003
Abstract (Descriptive Summary):
This is a
collection of documents from the 37th Annual Tennessee Valley Old
Time Fiddlers Convention in 2003.
Access/Restrictions:
The
collection is open for research use.
Provenance and Acquisition
Information:
The
material in this collection was given to the Center for Popular Music by former
CPM director, Paul Wells.
Subjects/Index Terms:
Fiddling--Southern
States
Old-time
music
Old-time
music—Tennessee
Fiddler's
Convention
Fiddling—Competitions
Agency History/Biographical Sketch:
Paul F. Wells, Director
Emeritus, served as the first director of the Center for Popular Music, from
1985 until his retirement in 2010. He has published over a hundred articles,
book chapters, and reviews on a wide range of topics in American music. He has
also produced and annotated more than twenty LPs and CDs. Three of his
productions, New England Traditional Fiddling, Johnny Gimble's Texas
Fiddle Collection, and The Joe Maphis Flat-Picking Spectacular, were
nominated for Grammy awards. Wells served as president of the Society
for American Music from 2001-2003 and has been active in many other
professional and scholarly organizations. In addition to his academic work,
Wells is an accomplished musician, a published photographer, and a composer of
tunes that have entered Irish-American tradition.
Scope and Content:
This
collection contains steering committee contacts, a co-chair letter,
adjudication materials, contest rules, and a newspaper article about the 37th
Annual Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention. All date to 2003.
Collection Contents: (Folder/box
list):
Box 1 Manuscripts
Folder 1 Co-chair letter and steering contacts
Folder
2 Adjudication materials – Oct.
4 & 5, 2003 - Judges’ pass, judging assignments, judge’s scorecard
Folder
3 Contest rules – includes,
bluegrass and old time banjo, band, string band, mandolin, guitar, harmonica,
voice, junior/senior
Folder
4 The News-Courier, Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention,
Friday, Oct. 3, 2003
Arrangement:
Unless
otherwise noted in the folder and box list, the arrangement scheme for the
collection was imposed during processing in the absence of a usable original
order.
Location:
These
materials are located among the manuscripts and found in one box by accession
number.
Related Materials:
Other old time
music holdings included in the CPM collections: sound recordings, photographs,
posters, playbills, programs, and periodicals. The Center also holds other
manuscript materials related to the TN Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention,
including the Bill Harrison Collection.
Processed
by Emily T. Boersma, August 2015.