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Title
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Bryant McMurray oral history interview 3, 2017 January 18
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Interviewee
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McMurray, Bryant, 1947-
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Interviewer
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Nicholson, Joseph
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Place of Publication
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Charlotte, North Carolina
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Publisher
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J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives
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Date of Interview
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2017-01-18
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Physical Description
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1 audio file (51:38) : digital, MP3
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Object Type
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Audio
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Genre
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spoken word
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Language
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eng
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Interviewee Biography
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Bryant McMurray was a 69-year-old man at the time of the interview, which took place in his office in Fretwell Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1947. He was educated at the University of South Carolina and Appalachian State University, and was employed as a photojournalist, sports photographer, entrepreneur, and college teacher.
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Abstract
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In this third installment of a series of interviews, Bryant McMurray discusses the evolution of stock car racing from a hardscrabble, do-it-yourself sport to a multimillion dollar industry with highly paid celebrity drivers and lucrative corporate sponsorships. He describes his professional and personal relationships with drivers like Richard Petty and Bobby Allison, the tragic fates of Tim Richmond and other hard-living motorsports luminaries who met untimely ends both on and off the track, and the lively culture of parties and carousing that surrounded the sport. McMurray also touches on the role of women in stock car racing as drivers and as beauty queens, the experience of African-American drivers in NASCAR, and his own long and fruitful relationships with fellow sports photojournalists like Pal Parker.
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Digital Object Notes
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MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV production master file. Interview originally recorded on a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder.
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Subjects--Names
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McMurray, Bryant, 1947-
Richmond, Tim, 1955-1989
Petty, Richard, 1937-
Parker, Pal
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Subjects--Organizations
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NASCAR (Association)
Charlotte Motor Speedway (Organization)
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Subjects--Topics
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Sports photographers
Photojournalists
College teachers
Businesspeople
Motorsports
Photography of sports
Stock car racing
Photojournalism
Stock car drivers
Women automobile racing drivers
African American automobile racing drivers
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Subjects--Geographic
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North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Concord
South Carolina—Rock Hill
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Subjects--Genre
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Interviews
Oral histories
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Coverage--Dates
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1950-2010
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Digital Collection Title
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Bryant McMurray oral history interviews
Motorsports
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Rights
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This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
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Internet Media Type
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audio/mpeg
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Related Interviews
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T. Taylor Warren oral history interview 1, 2005 December 7, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A128); T. Taylor Warren oral history interview 2, 2006 January 12, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A73); Bryant McMurray oral history interview 1, 2016 August 10 (http://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/motorsports%3A6379); Bryant McMurray oral history interview 2, 2016 December 14 (http://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/motorsports%3A8179); Bryant McMurray oral history interview 4, 2017 April 26 (http://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/motorsports%3A10262).
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Identifier
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OH-MC0595
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Handle URL
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/motorsports:8880