Sounds of the South Award

Application deadline is March 14, 2112

 

The Sounds of the South Award is a $1,000 undergraduate research award given once a year to a UNC-Chapel Hill student wishing to record and work with musicians within any genre of southern music during the summer. The award can be used for travel, equipment, or any other expenses related to recording the music. At the end of the summer the recipient will be required to turn in a summary of the project and a CD of the recordings, which will go into the Sounds of the South archive at UNC’s Southern Folklife Collection. In addition to the $1,000 for the student, the award fund includes a total of $250 designated as an honorarium for the musician(s) that the student chooses to record.

Applicants should submit the following:

  • a project plan (no more than three typed pages) that explains the nature of the music/musicians to be recorded, why the student wishes to record this music/musician, and how the student plans to complete the recordings;
  • a preliminary budget;
  • a letter of support from a UNC-Chapel Hill faculty adviser.

The award recipient will be announced in April.

Requirements of the Award

By September 15th of the award year, the recipient will submit to the Southern Folklife Collection the following

  • a one- to three-page description of their experience, including a description of what they did, what they learned, and how their recordings compared to what they expected to record at the beginning of the summer;
  • a CD of their recordings, or a compilation of the best of their recordings;
  • field notes to accompany the CD, including: 
    • artist(s)
    • song title
    • location and date of recording
    • other relevant notes on the artist/location

 

All of these items will be copies, and one set of copies will be donated to the Sounds of the South archive at the Southern Folklife Collection.