“In recognition of Black History Month, the Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) is proud to highlight films from our collections that center Black communities, voices, and lived experiences”: From Blues to Banjo: Black Music in the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive.
This week: Samuel Charters’s short 1973 film The Blues, with J.D. Short, Pink Anderson and his son “Little Pink,” Furry Lewis, Baby Tate, Memphis Willie B., Gus Cannon, and Sleepy John Estes.
Monday, February 9, 2026
Samuel Charters’s The Blues
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Thanks for this! His book Sweet As the Showers of Rain, which covers many of the same people, is a favorite of mine.
I remember borrowing his The Bluesmen from my high school’s library and wanting to look at the circulation card to find out who else might have been interested in the music. And the librarian (reasonably, I admit) wouldn’t allow it.
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