Michael Plunkett, Editor
University of Virginia Press
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Virginia
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Ferrum College
Ferrum, VA 24088
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The Blue Ridge Institute, "committed to the documentation, preservation, and presentation of the traditional life and culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains," includes the Blue Ridge Heritage Archive and Blue Ridge Institute Records.
Includes music (secular, blues, nonblues secular); oral history;
interviews; and stories from all regions of Virginia, but the main
collection is from the Blue Ridge and Southwest Virginia.
Includes many and varied photographs of and about Afro-Americans from
all areas of Virginia.
Primarily music (secular, blues, nonblues secular) from the western
Piedmont, the Blue Ridge, and Southwest Virginia.