American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
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- Ep 1
1.Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
06-07-199058mA celebration of New Orleans’ musical culture — from its piano bars and barrelhouses to brass bands and street parades, with their colorful, riotous, and symbolic second lines, in...
- Ep 2
2.Cajun Country: Don't Drop the Potato
13-07-199057mThe bayous of Louisiana have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo. Cajun Country investigates the Cajuns’ ro...
- Ep 3
3.The Land Where the Blues Began
20-07-199058mAlan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long explore the enduring African-American performance traditions of the Mississippi Delta. Featuring bluesmen R.L. Burnside and Jack Owens; tall...
- Ep 4
4.Appalachian Journey
27-07-199057mInvestigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendants of Scotch-Irish settlers of the Southern Appalachian mountains. Preachers, fiddlers, moonshiners, cloggers...
- Ep 5
5.Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
03-08-199058mExamining the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture. Stories told by Jani...
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