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Film, Video Laborlore: Expressive Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation

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Title

  • Laborlore: Expressive Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation

Summary

  • This panel considers the artistic representations of work in a range of cultural and social contexts (Mexico, Texas, Nevada, San Francisco) and in a variety of media (graphic arts, video and material culture). The panel focuses on issues of self-representation, the aesthetics of portraying work culture for both inside and outside audiences and the ways in which members of working communities adapt old and emerging media technologies to document and present their creative expressions to a rapidly changing audience.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2007-08-16.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  Education
  • -  Culture, Folklife
  • -  Technology, Industry

Notes

  • -  Group name: Laborlore Conversations IV: Documenting Occupational Folklore Then and Now.
  • -  Classification: Education.
  • -  Classification: General Works.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Various.
  • -  Recorded on 2007-08-16.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688136

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Rights & Access

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Credit Line: Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Laborlore: Expressive Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-16, 2007. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688136/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2007) Laborlore: Expressive Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-16. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688136/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. Laborlore: Expressive Culture, Work Culture and the Art of Representation. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -08-16, 2007. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688136/>.