To Hear Your Banjo Play

To Hear Your Banjo Play is a short film from 1947 released on 16mm. It is held in the IUL Moving Image Archive collection.

Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and then other singers, including mountaineers, sharecropp...

To Hear Your Banjo Play
Release date	1947
Running time	0:22:00

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71101

Summary

Pictures American folk singers in various parts of the country and discusses briefly the development of folk music here. Peter Seeger is shown singing and playing his banjo in a city setting, and then other singers, including mountaineers, sharecroppers, migratory workers, Negroes, and railroad builders, are shown.

Physical Format

1 Film (0:22:00)

16mm

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To Hear Your Banjo Play