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Film, Video American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America

Event video

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Title

  • American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America

Summary

  • Candacy Taylor discusses hairdressers and beauty shop culture. Although the practice of styling hair may appear to be based in vanity, hairdressing traditions and styling practices reflect our belief systems about race, class and cultural production. From the hills of San Francisco to the hills of the Appalachian Mountains; from the tip of Provincetown, Mass., to the tip of the Gullah Geechee Islands in South Carolina; and from the Lumbee Indians, who were here before there was an America, to Pakistanis who just arrived in Queens, this multimedia presentation gives unprecedented access into the intimate space of the salon.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • American Folklife Center, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2014-05-01.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts

Notes

  • -  Classification: Social Sciences.
  • -  Candacy Taylor.
  • -  Recorded on 2014-05-01.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689401

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-01, 2014. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689401/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & American Folklife Center, S. B. (2014) American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-01. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689401/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body American Folklife Center. American Roots: Hairdressers & Beauty Shop Culture in America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-01, 2014. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689401/>.