| Other author/creator | Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002. |
| Other author/creator | Bishop, John Melville. |
| Other author/creator | Long, Worth W. |
| Other author/creator | Burnside, R. L. (Rural L.), 1926-2005. |
| Other author/creator | Pitchford, Lonnie. |
| Other author/creator | Strickland, Napoleon. |
| Other author/creator | Owens, Jack. |
| Other author/creator | Mississippi Authority for Educational Television. |
| Other author/creator | Media Generation (Firm) |
| Series |
American patchwork
American patchwork. UNAUTHORIZED
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| Abstract |
Explores the social and cultural background of the blues, including interviews and performances throughout the Mississippi Delta. Includes work songs of the muleskinners in the levee camps, of river roustabouts, of sharecroppers, of churchgoers, and the toasts told in the barrooms. |
| General note | Originally broadcast on Mississippi Educational Television Network in 1980. Revised version was broadcast by PBS in 1990 as part of the television series American patchwork, which was a production of the Association for Cultural Equity. |
| Credits | Photography, John M. Bishop, Ludwig Goon ; editor, John M. Bishop ; research, Worth Long ; audio, Steve Darsey, Kenneth Gates, Jacqueline Mack, Paul Burt. |
| Performer |
Host: Alan Lomax; performances by R.L. Burnside, Lonnie Pitchford, Napoleon Strickland, Clyde Maxwell, Lucius Smith, Bud Spires and Jack Owens, Beatrice Maxwell, Walter Brown, Eugene Powell, Sam Chatmon, George Johnson, J.T. Tucker, Joe Savage, Walter Brown, William S. Hart, Bill Gordon, Belton Sutherland, Caesar Smith, and James Hall. |
| Technical details | DVD. |
| Genre/form | Documentary television programs. |
| Other title |
American patchwork (Television program) |
| UPC |
880902000120 |
