Capturing the South : Imagining America's Most Documented Region /

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"In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen...

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Main Author: Matthews, Scott L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social scientists.
Social sciences > Research.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Specialistes des sciences sociales > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Sciences sociales > Recherche > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Social scientists > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Social sciences > Research > Southern States > History > 20th century.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to [the] region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9781469646473

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