Lydia R. Hamessley
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Lydia R. Hamessley

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Lydia Hamessley (HAM' ess lee) is a professor of music at Hamilton College, where she teaches courses in country music, music and film, Medieval and Renaissance music, and world music. She received the Class of 1962 Outstanding Teaching Award in 2007 and The Samuel & Helen Lang Prize for Excellence in Teaching in 2013. She appeared in the BBC2 documentary, Dolly Parton: Here I Am, 2019 (currently available on Netflix), which aired in the U.S. as Biography: Dolly on A&E, 2020. She writes on old-time and bluegrass music, with an emphasis on women and Southern Appalachia. She has published articles on the banjo in 19th-century America; Appalachian murder ballads; and Peggy Seeger. She is a clawhammer banjo player, enjoys cycling tours in the UK, and is a quilter.
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