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Pam Grundy
Pam Grundy
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Pamela Grundy, coordinator of the SOHP's "Listening
for a Change" project documenting race
and desegregation at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North
Carolina, is a lecturer in history at Davidson College. She holds a
doctorate in history from UNC-Chapel Hill. In conjunction with her work
at West Charlotte High, Grundy curated the oral history-based exhibit
"Carrying the Spirit: Voices of Desegregation at West Charlotte High
School" for the Museum of the New South. Grundy is author of "You
Always Think of Home:" A Portrait of Clay County, Alabama
and Learning to Win: Sport, Education and Social
Change In North Carolina, 1880-1970.
Dr. Grundy can be reached via pamgrundy@earthlink.net.
Oral History Publications
Books
- Learning to Win: Sport, Education and Social
Change in North Carolina, 1880-1970 (UNC Press, forthcoming 2001)
- "You Always Think of Home:" A Portrait of
Clay County, Alabama (University of Georgia Press, 1991).
Selected Articles
- "From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall
of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920-1960," in Journal of
American History 86, June 2000.
- "'We Always Tried to Be Good People:' Respectability,
Crazy Water Crystals and Hillbilly Music on the Air, 1933-1935," in
Journal of American History 81, March 1995.
- "From Il Trovatore to the Crazy Mountaineers:
The Rise and Fall of Elevated Culture on WBT-Charlotte, 1922-1930,"
in Southern Cultures 1, Fall 1994.
- "'The Creek is Just Real Important to Me': Politics
and Culture in the Cane Creek Reservoir Controversy, 1976-89," in
Ronald J. Grele, ed., International Annual of Oral History, 1990:
Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History (Greenwood Press,
1992).
- "'I Just Had Such a Hankering for Music:' Changing
Musical Traditions in North Carolina's Western Piedmont," in Bob Carlin
and Pamela Grundy, Musical Change in the Western Piedmont: A Research
Summary (Davidson County Community College, 1991).
Selected Exhibitions
- Curator: "Carrying the Spirit: Voices of Desegregation
at West Charlotte High School," sponsored by the Museum of the New
South, Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 1999-April 2000.
- Curator: "Don't Touch That Dial: Carolina Radio
since the 1920s," sponsored by the Museum of the New South, Charlotte,
N.C., Sept. 1997-April 1998.
- Curator and Program Advisor: "Hoops and Goals:
A Century of Women's Basketball," sponsored by the Museum of the New
South, March-Aug. 1996.
- Director: "'You Always Think of Home': Images
of Clay County, Alabama," photographic exhibition and public programs
sponsored by the Alabama Humanities Foundation, 1991.
Selected Presentations
- "From Amazons to Glamazons: The Rise and Fall
of North Carolina Women's Basketball, 1920-1954," at 63rd Annual Meeting,
The Southern Historical Association, Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 1997.
- "Alabama Landmarks: History, Identity and Landscape
In Clay County, Alabama," at 30th Annual Meeting, Oral History Association,
Philadelphia, Penn., Oct. 1996.
- "Basketball, Oral History and Democracy: Reconfiguring
North Carolina's Basketball Narrative," at 2nd Annual Meeting, Southern
Oral History Association, Durham, N.C., March 1995.
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