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Gandy dancers
- Title
- Gandy dancers [videorecording] / produced and directed by Barry Dornfeld and Maggie Holtzberg-Call.
- Format
- DVD, Videodisc
- Published/Produced
- New York, NY : Cinema Guild, [2005], c1994.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (30 min., 40 sec.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Performer
- Narrator, Regina Taylor.
- Credits
- Cinematography, Richard Chisolm ; editor, Barry Dornfeld ; folklorist, Maggie Holtzberg-Call.
- System details
- DVD-R.
- Local Notes
- B-WELLS Media Services: Includes public performance rights.
- Summary
- Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of 8 retired African American railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad lines in the American South. Interviews the laborers about their working conditions in the segregated South before civil rights, organized labor, and occupational safety standards. Focuses on the workers' singing of railroad calls as artistic expressions of religious faith, social protest, and sexually explicit poetry.
- Notes
- This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives. Originally produced in 1994.
- Subject headings
- African American railroad employees--Southern States--Songs and music--History and criticism. Work songs--Southern States. African American railroad employees--Southern States--Social conditions. African American railroad employees--Southern States--Interviews. Railroads--Southern States--Songs and music--History and criticism.
- Genre heading
- Documentary films.
- Other contributors
- Dornfeld, Barry, 1958- Holtzberg, Maggie, 1955- Taylor, Regina, 1960- Cinema Guild.