The Resource Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region, Scott L. Matthews
Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region, Scott L. Matthews
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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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiv, 312 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781469646459
- Label
- Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region
- Title
- Capturing the South
- Title remainder
- imagining America's most documented region
- Statement of responsibility
- Scott L. Matthews
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
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- Matthews, Scott L.,
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- H62.5.U5
- LC item number
- M383 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Documentary arts and culture
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Social sciences
- Social scientists
- Social sciences
- Social scientists
- Southern States
- Sozialwissenschaften
- Dokumentation
- USA
- Label
- Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region, Scott L. Matthews
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 1029476338
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469646459
- Lccn
- 2018017918
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029476338
- Label
- Capturing the South : imagining America's most documented region, Scott L. Matthews
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-294) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 1029476338
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- xiv, 312 pages
- Isbn
- 9781469646459
- Lccn
- 2018017918
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029476338
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