- Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection
- Title:
- Introduction to Folklore
- Creator:
- Georgia Folklore Society
- Date of Original:
- 1975/1992
- Subject:
- Blues (Music)
Guitarists
African American musicians
Blind musicians
Musicians--Belize
Bahais
African American women musicians
Banjoists
Folk music
Songs
Singing
Brewer, Jim, 1920-1988
Cotten, Elizabeth
Seeger, Mike, 1933-2009 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Four episodes of Introduction to Folklore hosted by Doug Stevens. In the first episode, blind blues musician Jim Brewer plays several songs on guitar. Between songs, he discusses learning to play blues, his music career, and what blues mean to him. In the second episode, musician Robert Reneau plays several songs on guitar. He also discusses growing up in Belize, learning to play music, and his Bahai faith. In the next two episodes, 95 year old Elizabeth Cotten sings and plays guitar and banjo. Mike Seeger interviews Cotten. She discusses starting to play the guitar and banjo, playing left-handed, buying her first guitar, and working for Mike Seeger's mother.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:ugabma_gfc_gfc-2023
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/ugabma/gfc/do:gfc-2023
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 film : circa 120 minutes
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Folklore Collection, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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