The great flood

Title
The great flood

Physical Description
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
DVD insert includes the essay "High water marks" by Philip Horne.
 
Special feature: trailers.

Subject Term
Floods -- Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century.
 
African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 20th century.
 
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
 
Blues (Music)

Geographic Term
Mississippi River -- History -- 20th century.
 
Southern States -- Population -- History -- 20th century.

Genre
Documentary films
 
Historical films.

Added Author
Frisell, Bill.

Summary
The Mississippi River Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in American history. In the spring of 1927, the river broke out of its earthen embankments in 145 places and inundated 27,000 square miles. Part of its legacy was the forced exodus of displaced sharecroppers, who left plantation life and migrated to Northern cities, adapting to an industrial society with its own set of challenges. Musically, the Great Migration fueled the evolution of acoustic blues to electric blues bands that thrived in cities like Memphis, Detroit and Chicago becoming the wellspring for R&B and rock as well as developing jazz styles. THE GREAT FLOOD is a collaboration between filmmaker and multimedia artist Bill Morrison and guitarist and composer Bill Frisell inspired by the 1927 catastrophe.

System Details
DVD, NTSC, REGION 1 ; STEREO.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)DVD 363.3493 GRENonfiction DVDs
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)DVD 363.3493 GRENonfiction DVDs
Stillwater Public LibraryDVD 363.3493 GRENonfiction DVDs