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美国南部：故事，音乐和艺术

257 個評分

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

美国南部：故事，音乐和艺术

257 個評分

From small farms to urban neighborhoods, from the region itself to the more distant worlds of the southern diaspora, we discover the stories, music, and art of the American South.

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Southern Artists

Understanding the distinction between folk art traditions and the high art of the academy with examples of basket-weaving, quilt-making, sculpture, painting, and photography.

Black and White Photography6:00

Color Photography5:10

Sense of Place5:57

Sense of History6:23

Literature's Influence3:00

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Dr. William Ferris
Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History; Senior Associate Director of CSAS; Adjunct Professor in the Curriculum in Folklore
Department of History

[MUSIC]

Photography has always been very important in the American South.

From the 19th century on.

Traveling photographers, local photographers, captured portraits,

and landscapes, and in the twentieth century,

some of our greatest American photographers made images of the South.

Walker Evans and his friend James Agee.

Visited Hale County, Alabama, and produced a book called

"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," that is a classic portrait of white sharecroppers,

and Walker's photographs captured the faces, the homes,

and the landscape of these worlds in a way that is truly unforgettable.

He is arguably the greatest black and

white photographer our nation has produced.

And he spoke with me about his friendship with James Agee,

who wrote the book that was illustrated by Walker's photographs,

and he talked about Agie's anger over the injustice of poor people suffering and

struggling, in the midst of a country that has great wealth.

These words are really timeless.

>> Well, Andy was very young, you must remember.

And what he wanted to do was to shock and

scare people which is far from anything.

In the academic world.

He wanted to make people who, who were

not poor for example really feel what it was like to be up against it.

he, he, he wanted to rub it in and, and, and, and, and, wha, wha, he was angry.

He wanted to say, look you sons of bitches and you bastards, what the hell do

you think you're doing, living this way while these people are living this way?

And the hell with you.

I wish you all.

To, to go to hell.

Which is, which is young and immature attitude.

But he was that way.

And as you remember some of those pages in that book do try to rub it in that way.

He was very angry.

about, the, the, well, the, the, the, the, the, the middle, middle class,

American society, who, who by the condition by.

Security, and by taking things for granted.

Whereas these people who were human beings whom he loved

were shut out of that.

Not only shut out but suffering deeply.

Because of being shut out of it.

Just because of money.

Which is, which is, is, as you and I know really an evil thing.

It, the, the, the social justice is a, is a, is a,

a shocking work of the devil somehow or other.

I still feel it today.

>> Documenting the South with photographs has been used as a way of bringing social

change during the WPA period when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

Photographers were sent around the South to capture, the worlds of poor white and

black families, as a way of waking up the American people to the need for change.

Another great photographer who was part of this work,

was Eudora Welty.

She traveled around Mississippi reporting on WPA projects,

and using her camera to document them.

And some of these photographs later inspired her work as

a writer of short stories and novels.

And Eudora spoke with me about those photographs and how important they

were in her career as a young woman trying to deal with the American South.

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