Song catcher

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Movie
German title Song catcher
Original title Song catcher
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2000
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Maggie Greenwald
script Maggie Greenwald
production Richard Miller
music David Mansfield
camera Enrique Chediak
occupation

Songcatcher is an American drama film directed by Maggie Greenwald from 2000. It is about a musicologist who researches, archives and collects the folk music of the Appalachian Mountains in western North Carolina. Although Songcatcher is a feature film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, the founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina.

action

After she is denied her doctorate at her university, Lily Penleric ( Janet McTeer ) travels impulsively to her sister, who is a teacher at a rural school in the Appalachians . There she came across the discovery of your life: a treasure trove of old Scottish-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, and which have been able to preserve their uniqueness through the seclusion of the mountains. Through her persistence, she gains access to the locals and is able to document the old traditions - and she falls in love with the local musician Tom Bledsoe ( Aidan Quinn ).

literature

  • Scarborough, Dorothy (1937). A Song Catcher in Southern Mountains: American Folk Songs of British Ancestry. New York, New York: Columbia University Press.

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