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Folk America Documentary Part 2 This Land Is Your Land PAL DVD
Broadcast BBC4 Friday 30th January 2009

Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.

Official blurb: In the depression of the 1930s, John Lomax found convicted murderer Leadbelly in a southern jail. Leadbelly's music was never quite as pure and untouched by pop as Lomax believed, but it set a new agenda for folk music, redefining it as the voice of protest, the voice of the outsider and the oppressed.

Dustbowl drifter Woody Guthrie fitted the mould perfectly and the two of them teamed up with Lomax's son Alan, Pete Seeger and Josh White - a group of friends who believed 'they could make a better world if they all got together and just sang about it'. Their songs and their radical politics took them to high places of influence, but brought about their downfall in the blacklisting 1950s.

Contributors include Pete Seeger, Rambling Jack Elliot, Anna Lomax, Tom Paxton, Roger McGuinn, Woody Guthrie's sister and daughter and Josh White's son.


Chapter list:
1. Woody Guthrie...and friends
2. Leadbelly and John Lomax
3. Woody Guthrie
4. Josh White
5. Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger and Leadbelly
6. Josh White and Leadbelly in Washington
7. Woody Guthrie, New York 1940
8. The Almanac Singers
9. Dave "Honeyboy" Edwards
10. Josh White
11. Pete Seeger and Jean Ritchie
12. Pete Seeger and woody Guthrie
13. Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly
14. The Weavers
15. The Committee
16. Harry Smith to Bob Dylan


Total play time: approx 59mins 30 secs

Audio:AC3 48000Hz 256kb/s stereo
Video:16:9 PAL, 720 x 576, MPEG-2, 25fps Approx 4570kbps
BBC4 Digita