Boundless: Artists in the Archives is a newly launched program from the University of Tennessee Libraries. To highlight the unique materials available in UT\u2019s Special Collections and Betsey B.\u00a0Creekmore\u00a0Archives, the Libraries will periodically commission a work of art or music inspired by an item or collection in the archives.<\/p>\n
The Libraries\u2019 first partners in the Boundless project are Knoxville musicians Amanda and Allen Rigell, who perform under the name Count This Penny. The singer-songwiter duo have composed and recorded a song inspired by materials in the Wilma Dykeman and James R. Stokely Jr. Papers.<\/p>\n
The public is invited to a reception and performance by Count This Penny to celebrate the inauguration of Boundless: Artists in the Archives. The free performance will take place on Thursday, November 16, at 5:30 p.m., in the Special Collections Reading Room, 121 John C. Hodges Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
A mini documentary and a vinyl recording of the new song will be available at a later date.<\/p>\n
All the materials created as part of the Boundless series will be preserved in Special Collections, and the song will be made freely available for non-commercial use under the terms of a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n
Count This Penny has been featured on WDVX\u2019s Blue Plate Special<\/em> and American Public Media’s A Prairie Home Companion<\/em>\u00a0and has shared the stage with many performers, including opening for Melissa Etheridge at the Tennessee Theatre in 2016.<\/p>\nHusband and wife James Stokely and Wilma Dykeman, whose archives inspired the new song, collaborated on several books about civil rights and the south, including their award-winning Neither Black Nor White<\/em> (1957). Dykeman was also a noted novelist, historian, and journalist. She taught creative writing at UT for more than twenty years. Dykeman\u2019s best-known books include the novel The Tall Woman<\/em> (1962) and The French Broad<\/em> (1955), part of the Rivers of America Series<\/em>.<\/p>\n__
\nHear a preview of Count This Penny’s song:<\/p>\n
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