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Audio Recording Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

About this Item

Title

  • Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1

Names

  • Browning, Rebecca (Collector)
  • Fleischhauer, Carl (Collector)
  • Buckalew, Nancy (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, April 19, 1977

Headings

  • -  Southerners (United States)
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Music
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Interviews
  • Music

Notes

  • -  Nancy Buckalew, part 1
  • -  Part 1 of a 2-part interview with and music performances by former Alabaman and fiddle player Nancy Buckalew, recorded at Johnny’s Tavern in Cicero, Illinois; topics include Buckalew’s sense of making her way in the world (you need “backbone and guts”); biographical information, learning fiddle playing from her father and with her brother, playing and singing in the style of Jimmie Rodgers; Buckalew quit playing when she married but her children wanted to learn so she bought a fiddle in 1969, then other instruments, now teaching her grandson Johnnie Glassco; how Buckalew had gone far and near to play, played with Chicago musician Tennessee Slim, about reduced popular affection for country fiddle at this time; about playing banjo; fiddle repertory includes hoedowns like “Arkansas Traveler” and “Boil (bile) them Cabbage Down”; about fiddle tunings, continued in part 2.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20779a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0783
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T255-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, Carl Fleischhauer, and Nancy Buckalew. Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20779a/.

APA citation style:

Browning, R., Fleischhauer, C. & Buckalew, N. (1977) Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20779a/.

MLA citation style:

Browning, Rebecca, Carl Fleischhauer, and Nancy Buckalew. Interview and performances by fiddle-player Nancy Buckalew, Chicago, Illinois, part 1. Chicago, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20779a/>.