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American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

  • LanguageEnglish
  • First Air1990-07-06
  • Last Air1990-08-03

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.

  • Documentary
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