American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America

(1990)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1990

Country: United States of America

Director: Alan Lomax

Cast: Alan Lomax

Plot

From 1978 to 1985 Alan Lomax traveled the American South and Southwest with a television crew to document regional folklore with deep historical roots. From the resulting 400 hours of footage came the five-program series American Patchwork, which aired on PBS in 1991.