Rights, Permissions, Disclaimers, Credits, and Contacts

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Rights

 The material at this website is intended strictly for educational, research, and other not-for-profit use.

Permissions and Disclaimers

In accordance with professional standards and to the best of their ability, the hosts have sought and secured proper permissions to reproduce all materials.  If you are or believe you are  the copyright owner of any item at this site and that this site improperly attributes any item or has used any item without proper authority, the hosts of this site want to hear from you.  Please contact us at appalachianspeech@gmail.com.

The hosts have created, and therefore maintain the copyright on, most of the documents at this site, including the transcriptions, glossary, CESME, and most other pages.  Anyone interested in reproducing, distributing, or making further use of material at this website is asked to contact us at the address above.

As detailed elsewhere at this site, Joseph Sargent Hall gave the original disk recordings he made in 1939 to the Library of Congress.  Beginning in 2007, Montgomery consulted first with Michael Taft and later with Anne Hoog at the Library’s American Folklife Center to ascertain how best to secure permission to reproduce these recordings.  According to Library of Congress legal policy, “responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of any item and securing necessary permissions ultimately rests with those persons desiring to use the item(s).”  With this in mind, Taft and Hoog advised Montgomery to pursue a “good faith effort” approach and outlined what other patrons dealing with similar historic recordings have done to fulfill this goal.  Such an effort would be valid for a given, one-time use of the material such as at this site.  We deeply appreciat their steady, invaluable counsel.

Montgomery could find no evidence that any of the sixty-two people recorded by Hall remained alive, meaning that, according to the Library of Congress, it was their descendants who ultimately owned the material on Hall’s recordings.  However, these descendants were dispersed and undoubtedly numerous, so he followed the Hoog’s suggestion to arrange for local newspapers to publish prominent stories announcing the imminent posting of recordings on the internet and naming the speakers and their communities involved.  Given the number of speakers, doing these things would constitute a “good faith effort” to apprise possible descendants.  

In due course, Montgomery contacted a widely distributed newspaper on each side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, providing such information and arranging for them to run a story that also listed Hall’s speakers.  On April 1, 2012, the Knoxville News-Sentinel published Morgan Simmons’ story “New Website to Feature 1939 Field Recordings of Smoky Mountain Speech,”which listed speakers from Tennessee.  On May 16 of the same year, Quintin Ellison of the Smoky Mountain News, a Waynesville NC paper covering  Haywood, Jackson, Macon and Swain counties, wrote the story “Voices of the Smokies to Go Live in Oral Project,” which listed North Carolina speakers.

Credits

The Joseph Hall 1939 recordings, originally on disks and not created at a professional standard, have proved a long-term challenge to transcribe as faithfully as possible.  The hosts have spent more time than they can canculate.  Several other people have used their ears, their wits, and numerous hours to audit and refine the transcriptions at this website.  The hosts wish to thank and credit Mary Ruth Chiles, Elizabeth Layman, Christina Tortora, and Frances Blanchette, each of whom has improved the transcriptions.

For permission to use two selections from the Old-Time Smoky Mountain Music CD, we wish to thank the Great Smoky Mountains Association and Steve Kemp, GSMA's Interpretive Products & Services Director.  For his part in producing the CD's liner notes, some of which are used at this site, we thank Ted Olson.  For her part in transcribing the lyrics of the two songs, we thank Elizabeth Layman.

For their assistance in behind-the-scene construction of this site, we thank Matt May, Rachel Mann Scott, and Zack White.

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Photo Credits: Appalachian State University for photograph of Cratis Williams, http://omeka.library.appstate.edu/show/items/11502.

Cratis Williams recording: AC. 102, Cratis Williams Papers, W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection

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