Buckdancer / by Bess Lomax Hawes and Robert Eberlein, Barbara LaPan Rahm, narrated by Donald Freed.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hawes, Bess Lomax, 1921-2009, producer.

Eberlein, Robert, producer.

Rahm, Barbara LaPan, producer.

Freed, Donald, narrator.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), distributor.

Series:

Ethnographic video online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clog dancing--Sea Islands.

Clog dancing.

African American dance--Sea Islands.

African American dance.

African American dancers--Sea Islands.

African American dancers.

Fife music--Sea Islands.

Fife music.

Folk music--Sea Islands.

Folk music.

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video file (5 min.) : sound, black and white

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Watertown (Mass.) : Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 2003.

Language Note:

English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

video file

Summary:

The films were made in the Anthropology Department of San Fernando Valley State College (now California State University at Northridge). Edmund Carpenter founded the department with the intention of moving anthropology beyond the book. He felt that the realities and insights of anthropology were often better represented in the arts than in scholarly texts and between 1957 and 1967 he led a flourishing and experimental department. In addition to cultural anthropologists, physical anthropologists and linguists, his faculty included folklorist Bess Lomax Hawes along with artists, musicians, animators and filmmakers.

Notes:

Previously released on DVD.

Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed May 5, 2012).

Filmed in Los Angeles, Calif., Mississippi, and Downey, Calif.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.