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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Fruteland Jackson
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Fruteland Jackson.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 19 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Blues musician Fruteland Jackson was born on June 9, 1953 in Doddsville, Sunflower County, Mississippi. Jackson's formal music training began in high school where he played bugle and trombone. He attended Columbia College in Chicago and majored in performing arts. He studied vocal performance at Chicago's Roosevelt University. Temporarily suspending his artistic ambitions, Jackson worked as a private investigator for the State of Illinois' Department of Human Rights. In 1980, he returned to Mississippi and opened a wholesale seafood business that flourished until Hurricane Elena devastated the local economy in 1985. After the hurricane, Jackson returned to his passion for blues music. In 1996, he founded the "Blues in the Schools" program. Jackson received numerous awards including the 1996 Illinois Arts Council Folk/Ethnic Heritage Award. In 2003, his album "Blues 2.0" was nominated for a W.C. Handy Award in the category of Acoustic Blues Album of the Year.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Fruteland Jackson
Fruteland Jackson
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Performers
Sasha Dalton, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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