Fieldwork Footage

Fieldwork Footage

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 8, 1928

Runtime

0h 3m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

57%

Original Title

Fieldwork Footage

Director

Zora Neale Hurston

Description

Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale Hurston spent nearly two years, from 1927 to 1929, studying the folkloric customs, work songs, spirituals, and vernacular language of African American communities along the River Road and from New Orleans to Florida.