P.O.V.

Season 19 Episode 7: Waging a Living

32 SeasonsAug 22, 2006NR1h8

Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry. In Lomax the Songhunter, filmmaker Rogier Kappers seeks to tell Lomax's story by interviewing friends such as Pete Seeger, combining it with archival recordings of music greats Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly, and gathering footage of the cotton fields, rock quarries and prisons where Alan Lomax captured A...

Season 19 Episodes:

Episode 2 Tintin and I

2. Tintin and I

Aired: Jul 4, 2006

In Japan, baseball is not a pastime — it's a national obsession. And for many...

Episode 3 The Fall of Fujimori

3. The Fall of Fujimori

Aired: Jul 11, 2006

Why do the comic-strip Adventures of Tintin, about an intrepid boy reporter, ...

Episode 4 The Tailenders

4. The Tailenders

Aired: Jul 18, 2006

Global Recordings Network, a Christian organization, has recorded Bible stori...

Episode 6 Lomax the Songhunter

6. Lomax the Songhunter

Aired: Aug 1, 2006

The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music—captured in the performances of ...

Episode 7 Waging a Living

7. Waging a Living

Aired: Aug 22, 2006

Alan Lomax was "the song hunter." He devoted his life to recording the world'...

Episode 8 The Boys of Baraka

8. The Boys of Baraka

Aired: Aug 29, 2006

The term "working poor" should be an oxymoron. If you work full time, you sho...

Episode 13 Taylor

13. Taylor

Aired: Oct 24, 2006

My Country, My Country is a 2006 documentary film about Iraq under U.S. occup...


Info about P.O.V.

Current Status: Returning Series

Network: PBS

Genres:Documentary