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Bess Lomax Hawes

Bess Lomax Hawes

1921-2009

"Today, we remember the beauty, substance, and intellectual power that Bess Lomax Hawes introduced into public discourse."
-- NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman, 11/30/09

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Two Films by Bess Lomax Hawes

Bess Lomax Hawes made four films when she was an anthropology & folklore professor at San Fernando Valley State College. Two of the films appear below.

Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle (1970)

This documentary features Earl Collins, a master fiddler in the Missouri-Oklahoma hoedown tradition. [19:47]



Pizza Pizza Daddy-O (1967)

This documentary looks at continuity and change in girls' playground games at a Los Angeles school. [17:48]



The films are from DVD "The Films of Bess Lomax Hawes" by Media Generation.


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"In the last third of a century, the number of US folklorists working in the public sector--in government arts and cultural agencies at all levels, in the non-profit world, and in private practice--has grown to equal the number of folklorists working in US universities. No one is more responsible for that growth than Bess Lomax Hawes. An entire generation of young folklorists who, like me, began their public careers in the 1970s and 1980s owe at least their initial professional opportunities to her, and were the constant beneficiaries of her leadership, support, critique, and counsel." - Tim Lloyd, Executive Director, American Folklore Society

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