English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Songcatcher
Songcatcher
is a 2000
drama
film directed by
Maggie Greenwald
. It is about a
musicologist
researching and collecting
Appalachian folk music
in the mountains of western
North Carolina
. Although
Songcatcher
is a
fictional
film, it is loosely based on the work of
Olive Dame Campbell
, founder of the
John C. Campbell Folk School
in
Brasstown, North Carolina
, and that of the English folk song collector
Cecil Sharp
, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License