The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #54675   Message #847762
Posted By: Porky the Buffet Slayer
15-Dec-02 - 10:20 AM
Thread Name: Songcatcher movie
Subject: Songcatcher movie
Saw a DVD movie last night called "Songcatcher," about a folklorist collecting traditional folk songs in Appalachia in 1907. A very good movie with some excellent traditional music and dancing. In the director's commentary on the DVD, she said she took many fictional liberties and that it was a tribute to folklorists like Cecil Sharp who did the real collecting about 10 years later.