American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

Documentary

1990

1 Season

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July 6, 1990 - August 3, 1990Season 1 of American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America has 5 episodes.

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S1 E1: Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now

Jul 6, 199058 min

A 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 which the community plays an essential part in the performance. Archival film footage, photographs, interviews with and performances by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Mardi Gras Indians, and Danny Barker tell the story of the New Orleans tradition.

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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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English

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July 6, 1990

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