Films of William Ferris
Contributors: University of North Carolina Press
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording]
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Blues (Music); African Americans; Music; Religion; African American wit and humor; Folklore; African American folk art; Vernacular architecture; Decorative arts; Folk art
Other titles: DVD companion to Give my poor heart ease, voices of the Mississippi blues.; Give my poor heart ease.
Description: The films collectively offer a portrait of the blues and of the secular and sacred influences on the form, centering on life in rural Mississippi on or near the Mississippi River.  In addition to the music itself, the films document storytelling, folk art and crafts, architecture, prison life, and African-American religious expression.
Notes: The 4th-7th films previously released on videocassette.

Issued with: Give my poor heart ease : voices of the Mississippi blues / [compiled] by William Ferris. Cast lists on p. 302 of text.

Filmed in various locations in Mississippi and in New Haven, Conn., 1968-1975.
Table of contents: title: Black delta, part I --; title: Black delta, part II --; title: Parchman Penitentiary --; title: Give my poor heart ease --; title: I ain't lyin' --; title: Made in Mississippi --; title: Two black churches.