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The great flood / Icarus Films ; Hypnotic Pictures and Songline/Tone Field Productions present ; a film by Bill Morrison ; music by Bill Frisell ; produced by Phyllis Oyama.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Floods--Mississippi River--History--20th century.
- Floods.
- Population.
- History.
- African Americans--Migrations.
- Mississippi River--History--20th century.
- Mississippi River.
- African Americans--Migrations--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century.
- Migration, Internal.
- United States.
- Southern States--Population--History--20th century.
- Southern States.
- Blues (Music).
- Mississippi River Region.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Historical films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (80 min.) : digital, sound, black and white
- monochrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2015]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its earthen embankments in 145 places and inundated 27,000 square miles. Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers, who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities, adapting to an industrial society with its own set of challenges. Musically, the Great Migration fueled the evolution of acoustic blues to electric blues bands that thrived in cities like Memphis, Detroit and Chicago becoming the wellspring for R&B and rock as well as developing jazz styles. This film is a collaboration between filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison and guitarist and composer Bill Frisell inspired by the 1927 catastrophe.
- Credits:
- Musicians: Bill Frisell (guitar), Ron Miles (trumpet), Tony Scherr (bass, guitar), Kenny Wollesen (drums, vibes).
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Hypnotic Pictures/Friz-tone Music, c2013.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed June 2, 2015).
- Publisher Number:
- if-fld Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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