Filmmakers

DANIEL W. PATTERSON is a Kenan Professor Emeritus of English and former chair of the Curriculum in Folklore at UNC-Chapel Hill, and a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. He has taught courses in "British and American Folksong" and "Folklore in the South," is a founder of the Southern Folklife Collection in the UNC library, and has written, edited, or co-edited ten books (including The Shaker Spiritual, Sounds of the South: A Report of a Conference on the Collecting and Collections of Southern Traditional Music, Diversities of Gifts: Field Studies in Southern Religion, Arts in Earnest: North Carolina Folklife, A Tree Accurst: Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver, and The True Image: Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry).  He has edited or collaborated on three sound recordings, and written articles on American folklore. He and his wife Beverly Patterson served together as Film Review Editors for the Journal of American Folklore from 1991-1993, and he has collaborated with Tom Davenport on six folklife documentary films: The Shakers, Born for Hard Luck, Being a Joines, The Ballad of Frankie Silver, A Singing Stream, and its sequel Reunion.  From the inception of Folkstreams, he has served as board member, advisor, and writer. Honors Patterson has received include the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, the Chicago Folklore Prize, and the Kenneth Goldstein Award of the American Folklore Society. He has also been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center and held a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation‘s Bellagio Study and Conference Center.