Minnie Black's Gound Band materials, c.1988
Sub-Series (ap.afc.06.22)
- Extent
- 37 Video cassettes
- 12 Photo prints
- 1 Boxes
- Part of
- Appalshop Films Collection, 1969-2015 > Series VI. Appalshop Films/Headwaters Television, 1984-1990 > Minnie Black's Gound Band materials, c.1988
- Scope and Contents
- Contains material related to the color documentary Minnie Black’s Gourd Band, a 1988 release. The documentary profiles 89-year-old African American artist Minnie Black from East Bernstadt, Kentucky. Black is shown growing gourds in her backyard garden. She discusses the secrets to growing good gourds and shows her gourd art including a double-headed donkey and “griffen” beast. She is shown attending “the World’s Largest Gourd Convention” in Mt. Gilead, Ohio where fellow artists hail her as "the queen of the gourd people." Interspersed throughout are versions of hymns and old songs played by Minnie and her Senior Citizen Gourd Band. Subjects include Appalachian Appalachian African Americans, Appalachian women, gourds, artisans and folk art of the Appalachian region.
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