Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage (1928)

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Documentary
  • Runtime

    0h 3m

  • Language

    EN

  • Production Countries

    United States of America

  • Release Date

    1928-01-08

Overview

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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