American Experience
Season 2, Episode 11: Ballad of a Mountain Man
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Bascom Lamar Lunsford was a pioneer folklorist who in the 1920s began a campaign to preserve mountain music and dance. He dignified what was known as "hillbilly music." Knocking on doors of local banjo pickers and fiddlers, listening to their songs, he amassed an extraordinary repertoire, recorded for the Library of Congress and started the first folk music festival.
All Episodes - Season 2
Episode 1
The Great Air Race of 1924
Episode 2
Demon Rum
Episode 3
A Family Gathering
Episode 4
The Great War: 1918
Episode 5
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
Episode 6
Forever Baseball
Episode 7
Mr. Sears' Catalogue
Episode 8
Yosemite: The Fate of Heaven
Episode 9
Adam Clayton Powell
Episode 10
Journey to America
Episode 11
Ballad of a Mountain Man
Episode 12
Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice
Episode 13
Orphans of the Storm
Episode 14
Forbidden City, USA
Episode 15
Battle for Wilderness
Episode 16
Roots of Resistance: The Story of the Underground Railroad