Archie Green
Work
- Date of Production
- 1980
- Duration
- Run time: 0:29:11
- Creators
- Appalshop, Inc (is producer)
- Headwaters (is producer)
- Contributors
- Wright, Jack (is interviewer)
- Green, Archie (is subject)
- Description
- Jack Wright interviews folklorist Archie Green who about how he became involved in blue collar culture, trade unions, his involvement in establishing American Folklife Center and belief in importance of fok culture, Merle Travis, the treatment of mountain people by record companies and women performers (mentions Reece, Sarah Ogan Gunning, Phyllis Boyens) and black women in the deep south (Trixie Smith). Jack Wright performs several songs.