Description
| Summary: | Features the musical traditions and verbal recollections of 8 retired African American railroad track laborers, whose occupational folk songs were once heard along the railroad lines in the American South. Interviews the laborers about their working conditions in the segregated South before civil rights, organized labor, and occupational safety standards. Focuses on the workers' singing of railroad calls as artistic expressions of religious faith, social protest, and sexually explicit poetry.
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| Item Description: | Videorecording. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (30 min., 40 sec.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in . |
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| Format: | DVD. |
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| Production Credits: | Cinematography, Richard Chisolm ; editor, Barry Dornfeld ; folklorist, Maggie Holtzberg-Call. |
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