Gandy Dancers

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Title

Gandy Dancers

Subject

Labor
Music
African-American History

Description

Musical traditions and recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers whose occupational folk songs were once heard on railroads that crisscross the South. They recount experiences in the segregated South, describe organized labor and occupational safety standards, and demonstrate railroad calls that survive today as expressions of religious faith, social protest and sexually explicit poetry. A film by Barry Dornfeld and folklorist Maggie Holtzberg.

One of the two copies of this tape are unusable

Creator

Dornfield, Barry
Holtzberg-Call, Maggie

Source

External Item - Georgia Humanities Council

Date

1994

Rights

Copyright Barry Dornfield and Maggie Holtzberg-Call

Format

VHS

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

03.Ex.1994
224

Coverage

Georgia

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

VHS

Duration

00:31:24

Compression

MPEG

Producer

Dornfield, Barry
Holtzberg-Call, Maggie

Director

Dornfield, Barry
Holtzberg-Call, Maggie

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