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Capturing the South Imagining America's Most Documented Region
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Capturing the South [electronic resource] : Imagining America's Most Documented Region / Scott L. Matthews.
ISBN
1469646471
9781469646473
9781469646442 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469646459 (pbk : alk. paper)
Published
[Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
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1 online resource.
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Summary
"In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to [the] region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 US Regional Studies, South
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The most documented region
Race, region, and resistance: Howard Odum's community and folk background studies, 1905-1928
What a place this South is: Jack Delano's Farm Security Administration photographs of Greene County, Georgia, during the New Deal
Field trip
Kentucky: John Cohen, Roscoe Holcomb, and documentary expression during the folk revival
Documenting SNCC and the rural South: Danny Lyon and the cultural politics of civil rights movement photography
Protesting the privilege of perception: resistance to documentary work in Hale County, Alabama, 1900-2010
Seems a land out of time: documentary's enduring legacy in the twenty-first-century South.
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