The storied South: voices of writers and artists

WRITERS

Eudora Welty

Ernest Gaines

Robert Penn Warren

Alice Walker

Alex Haley

Margaret Walker

Sterling Brown

SCHOLARS

Cleanth Brooks

John Blassingame

Charles Seeger

John Dollard

C. Vann Woodward

MUSICIANS

Bobby Rush

Pete Seeger

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Walker Evans

William Christenberry

William Eggleston

PAINTERS

Sam Gilliam

Ed McGowin

Benny Andrews

Carroll Cloar

Rebecca Davenport

William Dunlap

Maud Gatewood

George Wardlaw

Julien Binford.

CD. Eudora Welty: A good household (0:52) Eudora Welty: WPA memories (1:47) Earnest Gaines: creating the voice of Miss Jane Pitman (2:56) Robert Penn Warren: the decline in human values (2:43) Alice Walker: regions of the mind and heart (0:43) Alice Walker: integrating Southern writers (1:06) Alex Haley: the South is a place of hands (1:30) Margaret Walker: a memory of Langston Hughes (2:14) Margaret Walker: the question of black humanity (1:56) Sterling Brown: not simple North and South (4:21) Cleanth Brooks: accepting the past (2:17) John Blassingame: the historian's tasks (2:32) Charles Seeger: memories of Pete (1:58) John Dollard: feelings about the South (2:26) C. Vann Woodward: why historians study the South (2:08) C. Vann Woodward: books aren't accidents (1:19) Bobby Rush: the blues to me (1:21) Pete Seeger: We shall overcome (2:10) Walker Evans: Agee's anger (2:23) Walker Evans: the unconscious process (1:39) William Christenberry: the profound influence of Southern writers (0:31) William Eggleston: beginnings in 1958 (0:32) William Eggleston: the value of photographs (1:11) Sam Gilliam: memories of the South (1:29) Ed McGowin: on Southern surreal (1:34) Benny Andrews: pictures out of clouds (0:53) Carroll Cloar: childhood imagery (1:00) Rebecca Davenport: appreciating irony (1:10) William Dunlap: that narrative business (0:28) Maud Gatewood: Africa's given us quite a bit (1:19) Maud Gatewood: sense of place (1:31) Julien Binford: painting the sawmill (1:03)

DVD. Eudora Welty and Cleanth Brooks (8:19)

Eudora Welty in Four women artists [includes reading of Why I live at the PO] (2:32)

Robert Penn Warren (8:38)

Cleanth Brooks (11:33)

C. Vann Woodward (6:06)

Bobby Rush [interview and concert] (14:41)

Pete Seeger (about 49 minutes)

Painting in the South (27:01).