Documentary. "A film by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, Worth Long"--Label. "A production of the Mississippi Authority for Public Television & Alan Lomax." Host: Alan Lomax ; various performers. Originally produced for television, originally broadcast on PBS in 1980. Extra features: Additional music by genre and artist -- Additional music by song -- Making The land where the blues began (25:00) -- Editing The land where the blues began (5:00) -- Levee camp [interviews] : first edit (26:00) -- Introduction to original broadcast / Alan Lomax (2:00). "Includes the following texts as PDF files. They can be accessed using Finder on a Macintosh or My Computer on a PC: Transcript -- Filmmakers newsletter article."
Contents:
Introduction -- Lonnie Pitchford -- Napoleon Strickland -- Jack Owens -- The river -- Eugene Powell -- Sam Chatmon -- The railroad -- The levee -- Prison -- Revival -- Toasts -- Credits.
Summary:
"In 1978, Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop took a portable video camera deep into The Land Where The Blues Began" ... This amazing mix of Europe and Africa is America's most distinctive song style ... the product of the folk culture of the Mississippi Delta. ... The DVD presents the original version plus more than three hours of additional material.
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