Korine-Dunlap collection

Descriptive Summary
Title: Korine-Dunlap collection
Creator: Dunlap, Blaine
Inclusive Dates: 1970s
Language(s): English
Extent: 1 Linear Feet (3 boxes and 11 moving images)
Collection Number: ms3787
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

Blaine Dunlap (b. 1953), studied documentary filmmaking with Stephen Schmidt at Southern Methodist University. After attending the Sinking Creek Film Celebration in Nashville in 1974, Dunlap moved to Tennessee. He and Sol Korine recorded the Fiddlers' Jamboree in 1975, the finished program Showdown at the Hoedown aired on PBS in 1977.

In 1976, Dunlap and Broadside TV produced Symphony No. 5 and Sol Korine, along with the Tennesee Folklore Society, received an NEA gran to produce documentaries about Uncle Dave Macon and Hamper McBee. The film Hamper McBee: Raw Mash aired on PBS in 1978. In 1981, Southbound, a ten part anthology of southern folk music was released.

Scope and Content

This collection includes correspondence, contracts, budgets, promotional materials, notes, and photographs, related to several projects involving Blaine Dunlap and Sol Korine. The programs include Singing Creek Film Celebration, Showdown at the Hoedown, Symphony #5, and Hamper McBee: Raw Mash.

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Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Though the collection is open for research, the audiovisual recordings do not have reference copies; however, reference copies are available upon request. Audiovisual research requests are dependent upon the format and condition of the recordings.

Preferred Citation

Korine-Dunlap collection, ms3787, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2013.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Related materials available: Korine-Dunlap collection, Center for Popular Music

Related audiovisual materials from this collection are housed in the Walter J. Brown Media Archive: http://purl.libs.uga.edu/brown/kor/bmac-coll

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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1

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, 1974-1975

 

1

2

Broadside TV Schedule, Johnson City, Tennessee, 1974-1975

 

1

3

Arts Exposure Budget

 

1

4

Coalition for New Public Affairs Programming correspondence, 1976

 

1

5

Tennessee Arts Commission, 1976

 

1

6

Tennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Vactor Symphony 5, 1975-1979

 

1

7

Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA), 1978

 

1

8

Athens (Ohio) Video Festival, 1978

 

1

9

Use agreements and notes, 1978-1979

 

1

10

Alan Lomax - American Patchwork

 

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11

Dunlap correspondence with the Center for Popular Music, 2001

 

1

12

Tennesse Folklore Society NEA grant "Southbound Project", 1975-1982

 

1

13

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash documentary, 1979

 

1

14

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash documentary transcript, 1978

 

1

15

"Give my poor heart ease", "Showdown at the Hoedown", and "Chulas Fronteras" material removed from film cans

 

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folder

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2

1

Southbound documentary press releases

 

2

2

Southbound press photographs

 

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3

1

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash photographs, 1978

 

3

2

Raw Mash and Mouth Music photographs, 1978, 1980

 

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3

Symphony #5 photographs, 1975

 

3

4

Southbound, 1981

 

3

5

Sinking Creek Film Celebration photographs, 1974

 

3

6

Video South Conference photographs