NEWS
Announcing The Carolina Brogue!
This newest film by the NCLLP presents a lively tour of the dialect and culture of the North Carolina Outer Banks. Check back often for updates on TV air dates. Available now on DVD.
The early residents of the North Carolina Outer Banks came south by boat from Tidewater Virginia and the eastern shores of Maryland, and many of them had originally come from Southwest England or the Ulster province of Ireland. Features of British and Scots-Irish English have been retained in the local dialect, though the dialect of the early English-speaking settlers evolved independently to take on the distinctive
character and vocabulary of the ‘hoi toide brogue.’ Once derided as “bad English” outside of its native communities, the dialect has been elevated by the BBC’s assessment of Ocracoke as ‘the Galapagos of language,’ and books like Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes.
Though villages along the sounds remain relatively isolated, the Outer Banks is now one of the most popular travel destinations in the world and it receives millions of visitors annually. Increased contact with outsiders has brought rapid change and today locals strive to hang on to their heritage, traditions and changing dialect. Rooted in twenty years of fieldwork, research and community relations, The Carolina Brogue is a candid portrait of contemporary life on the Carolina Coast, and one of the most unique dialects in the world.
DVD details:
USA | 2008 | 27 minutes | Color | Letterbox Format
$20.
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Special DVD features:
- The Ocracoke Brogue (1994)
- Celebrating Muzel Bryant
- Remembering Roy Parsons
- Conversations with Dave Esham
Announcing CD Re-issues!
We are happy to announce the re-release of The Queen Family: Backporch Music and An Unclouded Day, two of our most popular CD releases, with new bonus material! The Queen Family: Backporch Music is a collection of traditional folk music performed - quite literally on their back porch - by members of the Queen family (featured in our documentary film The Queen Family), and now includes 6 new bonus tracks. An Unclouded Day is a collection of stories, conversations and local music by Appalachian mountain residents featured in our film Mountain Talk, and now includes 6 new bonus tracks.
This Side of the River upcoming events
Several exciting opportunities to view This Side of the River are coming up! See below and also the film's website for information.
TV Airing
The film will air on SC ETV, South Carolina's PBS affiliate, on Thursday, February 7 at 10 PM as a part of the Southern Lens series! We are excited for South Carolina viewers to tune in.
Local Screening
The film will be screened at the North Carolina Museum of History on Saturday, February 9 at 10 AM in conjunction with the State Capitol’s new exhibit, With All Our Rights: North Carolina’s First African American Legislators. A panel discussion will follow the film, featuring the filmmakers, historian Earl Ijames, and a representative from the town of Princeville.
For more information about the February 9 event, see:
• Press release from the North Carolina Museum of History [ Download PDF ]
• Flyer from the State Capitol [ Download Word doc ]
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Remembering Roy Parsons
1921-2007
• Link to an online obituary from the Island Free Press
• Download a photo of Roy
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The NCLLP & the NC State Linguistics Program have a new website! Click a link below to visit:
[ NCLLP | NC State Linguistics ]
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Talking NC email list
Sign up to receive email updates from Talking NC here.
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NEWS ARCHIVE
Freedom's Voice
The Freedom's Voice exhibit closed on February 28. Thank you to all who supported it during its run at the Outer Banks History Center.
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FREEDOM'S VOICE:
Celebrating the Black Experience on the Outer Banks
An interactive exhibit at the Outer Banks History Center in Manteo, NC
June 1, 2006 - February 28, 2007
View photos of the exhibit's opening reception held on June 1 [PDFs]
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The Queen Family
• The Queen Family aired nationwide on PBS in October. See www.queenfamilymovie.com for more information, and to look up your local station's broadcast time.
• The Queen Family film was featured on WUNC's The State of Things on Monday, January 23. Listen to an archived edition of the hour-long broadcast, featuring Walt Wolfram, Neal Hutcheson, and Mary Jane Queen, in conversation with host Frank Stasio.
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• See photos from the February 19, 2006 screening of The Queen Family at the Black Mountain Center for the Arts in Black Mountain, NC.
This Side of the River
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• This Side of the River was featured as part of Tarboro-Edgcombe county's History Days on Friday, September 29 at 8 pm at Edgecombe Community College's Tarboro campus. See the article here.
• This Side of the River now available on DVD! Click here to order.
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