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Fieldwork Footage (1928)
3 minDocumentary
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Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.
Country: United States
Director: Zora Neale Hurston
Cast
Zora Neale Hurston
Keywords
Plot:floridadocumentary filmmakingfolklorewoman directorafrican americanzora neale hurston
Place:new orleans, louisiananew orleans
