TV series
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
1990 · 1 season
A gentle, unhurried journey through American roots music, rich with human warmth and the quiet weight of memory.
- Created by
- Alan Lomax, Mark Kidel
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Alan Lomax
- Overview
- From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.
- How it feels
- Warm, earnest and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Music, art, memory, identity
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- Alan Lomax, Mark Kidel
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Alan Lomax
