Alabama Black Belt Blues OVEE Presentation
Tue, Oct 20
|https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/u41my
A riveting live discussion about the upcoming release of Robert Clem's new documentary, "Alabama Black Belt Blues".
Time & Location
Oct 20, 2020, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/u41my
About the Event
Please join Alabama Public Television's preview screening and panel discussion of our upcoming documentary, Alabama Black Belt Blues. The screening will be held Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 7:00 pm. Preregister at https://ovee.itvs.org/screenings/u41my. The preview screening segments will be followed by a live panel discussion on Alabama's rich blues tradition. Members of the panel include filmmaker Robert Clem; musician BJ Reed with the Alabama Blues Project; Joey Brackner of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Center for Traditional Culture; African American folklorist Kern Jackson, Ph.D, of the University of South Alabama and Tina Naremore Jones, Ph.D, founder of the Center for the Study of the Black Belt.
ALABAMA BLACK BELT BLUES OVEE CLIPS
CLIP 1: Tells how Alabama folklorist Ruby Pickens Tartt convinces John Lomax, WPA folklorist and musicologist, to come to Sumter County in 1937. Lomax had previously dismissed Alabama as a "musical wasteland,". Together they record over…