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Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

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1928 · Movie · 3m

The read

It runs a compact 3m.

Synopsis

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.

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IMDb6.4/10

6 audience votes

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floridanew orleans, louisianadocumentary filmmakingfolklorewoman directorafrican americanzora neale hurstonnew orleans