Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

4/1/1985 - 3/31/1986

Funding Totals

$40,526.00 (approved)
$40,526.00 (awarded)


Classic Blues Singers (1910-1930) (Script, TV, Documentary)

FAIN: GN-22399-85

Calliope Film Resources, Inc. (Somerville, MA 02144-2338)
A. Christine Dall (Project Director: September 1984 to October 1990)

To support the scripting of a 90-minute documentary television film examining the contributions of a generation (1910-1930) of American women vocalists who helped transform the blues from a largely local, personal form of expression into a widely influential performing art in the American cultural mainstream.