Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

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Date: January 01, 1981 to December 31, 1981
Dates Note: 1981
Country of Origin: United States
Place of Origin: United States
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Color: Color
Silent: No
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No Regrets: A Celebration of Marlon Riggs
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Marlon Riggs and Peter Webster’s thesis project reflects on the heyday of Oakland blues in the late 1940s and ’50s, when an influx of African American shipyard workers mostly hailing from Louisiana and Texas arrived in the Bay Area. Combining vintage photographs, archival footage, interviews, and performances at venues like Eli’s Mile High Club, Riggs and Webster chronicle Oakland’s vibrant past while revealing an uncertain present.

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