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Bodhidharma's Shoe
Americans began to practice Zen in the 1960s under the guidance of teachers from Japan American Zen practice preserves many Japanese monastic traditions as Tom Davenport's personal account of a seven day intensive Zen retreat, documents The filmmaker intercuts video of the retreat with drawings by G
Tags : zen bodhidharma buddhism buddhist zazen religion meditation Tom Davenport Joshu Sasaki Roshi rinzi lin chi satori dana koan monastic monastery monk nun
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Gandy Dancers
Musical traditions and recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers whose occupational folk songs were once heard on railroads that crisscross the South...
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Les Blues de Balfa
A portait of Southwestern Louisana's Balfa Brothers, ambassadors of traditional Cajun music to the world Filmed in Louisiana between 1978 and 1981, the film focuses on the surviving brother fiddler Dewey Balfa and his efforts to continue playing and performing his family's traditional music after th
Tags : Cajun fiddle Dewy Balfa Louisanna folk folkstreams folkstreamer
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Black Delta Religion
This film was made from b/w Super 8mm footage that William Ferris gathered in rural Mississippi in 1968 The film includes footage from rural church services and a full immersion baptism...
Tags : black mississippi delta religion full immersion baptism african american religious folklife folklore roots culture folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 5761
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Cajun Visits
A series of five musical portraits of traditional Cajun master musicians at home in rural southwestern Louisana The film, where the language spoken is an ever shifting mix of English and Cajun French, is a loving tribute to these musicians and their unique musical culture...
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Views : 2125
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Appalachian Journey
Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made the mountains their home for centuries...
Tags : Appalachian ScothIrish songs mountains valley banjo singers culture Lomax folklore folkstreams folkstreamer
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Cowboy Poets
American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters--Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae--representing three different aspects of the cowboy-poetry tradition A Kim Shelton film...
Tags : cowboys national cowboy poetry gathering poets Waddie Mitchell Slim Kite Wally McRae oral folkstreams folkstreamer
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Epilogue to The Ballad of Frankie Silver
Bobby McMillon and his singing partner Marina Trivette perform old folk songs and recollect the experiences that led them to become ballad singers...
Tags : Folk Music Singing Bobby McMillon Frankie Silver murder Marina Trivette folkstreams folkstreamer
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Protest at Embassy of Myanmar Burma, Washingt
This video documents a demonstration and metta meditation in support of justice, democracy and loving kindness in front of the Myanmar (Burmese) embassy in Washington, DC October 4, 2007 The woman speaker is Nnin Nnin Pyne (h2pyne(at)yahoocom) The man leading the metta mediation is Hugh Byrne, a te
Tags : Burma Myanmar metta non violent Gandhi buddhism protest meditation monks lay support justice democracy China India folkstreams folkstreamer
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Born For Hard Luck
Excerpt from Born For Hard Luck, a film by Tom Davenport, which is a portrait of Arthur Peg Leg Sam Jackson, a black harmonica player, singer, and comedian This clip appears on the television in the Amelie's room, in the film Amelie directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet She used it to inspire her neighbour
Tags : blues music harmonica folklore peg leg Arthur PegLeg Sam Jackson Amelie dance folkstreamer folkstreams
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Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
Alan Lomax's examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and share their culture...
Tags : culture songs aiging old guitar Tommy Jarrell fiddle Sam Chatman Jack Owens Janie Hunter Nimrod Woodman Chester Wooten folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 9883
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Work Songs in a Texas Prison
Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist bruce jackson visited a Texas prison in huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of worksongs by inmates of the Ellis Unit...
Tags : african american work song south prison Pete Seeger folklife folklore folkmusic folkstreams folkstreamer
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Texas Style
Texas Style is an intimate look at rural Texas culture and the traditional fiddle music played on its back roads With spirited rhythms and guitar accompaniment, Texas fiddling is a crowd pleaser that has influenced western swing and folk music across the country This film centers on three generation
Tags : Texas Style traditional music fiddle Westmoreland family fiddlers folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 793
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Dreadful Memories The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunn
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the great coal strikes of the twenties and thirties In Mimi Pickering's 1988 film, Gunning's a cappella roots music is intercut
Tags : coal coalfield eastern Kentucky poverty mines organized labor working people folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 533
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Dance for a Chicken The Cajun Mardi Gras
Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the colorful, rural Cajun Mardi Gras Every year before Lent begins, processions of masked and costumed revelers, often on horseback, go from house to house gathering ingredients for communal gumbos in communities across rural southwest Louisiana Th
Tags : Cajun mardi gras drinking Louisiana horses masks clowns folkstreams folkstreamer
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Final Marks The Art of the Carved Letter
A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the craftsmen of the John Stevens Shop in Newport, Rhode Island, the oldest business in the United States still in continuous operatio
Tags : stone carving carved letters calligraphy grave stones northeast folklore folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 3357
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Steppin'
The Step Show -- an exciting dance style popular today among black fraternities and sororities In addition to many rousing, crowd-pleasing performances, the program examines the cultural roots of steppin' in African dancing, military marching and hip-hop music, and discusses its contemporary social
Tags : steppin stepping black african American hip hop phi beta sigma marching dance fraternities sororities indiana folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 6928
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The Music District
The Music District previews a one-hour documentary profiling four African American traditional music groups practicing and performing for fans and congregants in the neighborhood churches and nightclubs of Washington, DC The film features the Orioles (r&b quartet); Junk Yard Band (go-go); The Ki
Tags : Washington DC Gogo shout band jubilee quartet rampb United house of prayer african American folkstreams folkstreamer
Views : 5976
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Cajun Country
Allen Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo...
Tags : Cajun Louisiana Madigras bayou music gumbo festival culture Lomax folklore folkstreams folkstreamer
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Reality Show trailer 1
Reality Show follows six former gang members in Guatemala that have agreed to compete in a reality show, Challenge 10, in order to become entrepeneurs The film also delves into gang violence, and the lack of effective response to the issue A Rob Davenport Film...
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Views : 354
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