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Title

Mississippi blues [motion picture] / une production Little Bear, Odessa Films, Antenne 2 ; filmé avec le councours du Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi ; scripte, Ida Glenn ; un film produit et réalisé par Robert Parrish et Bertrand Tavernier.

Publication

1987.

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Additional Authors

• Tavernier, Bertrand.
• Parrish, Robert.
• Société nationale de télévision en couleur "Antenne 2."
• Little Bear Production.
• Odessa Films.
• University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.
• MPI Home Video (Firm)

Description

3 film reels (92 min.) : sd. (mono.), col.; 16 mm.

Summary

Filmed in Oxford, Mississippi, discusses and documents the role of the blues among rural Southern Blacks. Footage of performances, including music in Black churches, are mixed with scenes depicting the poverty of rural Southern life.

Subjects

• Blues (Music)
• African Americans > Mississippi > Music
• Blues (Music) > Mississippi > 1981-1990

Credits (note)

• Camera, Pierre-William Glenn ; editor, Ariane Boeglin.

Title

Mississippi blues [motion picture] / une production Little Bear, Odessa Films, Antenne 2 ; filmé avec le councours du Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi ; scripte, Ida Glenn ; un film produit et réalisé par Robert Parrish et Bertrand Tavernier.

Imprint

1987.

Credits

Camera, Pierre-William Glenn ; editor, Ariane Boeglin.

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Added Author

Tavernier, Bertrand.

Parrish, Robert.

Société nationale de télévision en couleur "Antenne 2."

Little Bear Production.

Odessa Films.

University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

MPI Home Video (Firm)

Branch Call Number

M16 5088 M