American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
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Length mins
LanguageEnglish
Release Date1990
StatusEnded
Documentary
Synopsis
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.