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Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad lines that crisscross the South. In addition to their interviews--which recount working conditions in the segregated South before civil rights, organized labor, and occupational safety standards--the video focuses on the workers' singing of railroad calls, which survive today as artistic expressions of religious faith, social protest, and sexually explicit poetry.
DVD, NTSC
Year 1994
Length 30 mins
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=3955
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=3955
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad lines that crisscross the South. In addition to their interviews--which recount working conditions in the segregated South before civil rights, organized labor, and occupational safety standards--the video focuses on the workers' singing of railroad calls, which survive today as artistic expressions of religious faith, social protest, and sexually explicit poetry.
DVD, NTSC
Year 1994
Length 30 mins
DVD available from
Europe, UK: artfilms.co.uk/Detail.aspx?ItemID=3955
US, Australia, World: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=3955
STREAMING: artfilms-digital.com
