Li'l Liza Jane: The Story of America Through the History of a Song by Emily Cohen, Dan Gutstein

Li'l Liza Jane: The Story of America Through the History of a Song

Feature · Historical · 6 pages

Extraordinary musicians. Unprecedented archival footage. Li’l Liza Jane: The Story of America Through the History of a Song tells the journey of a New Orleans classic and Appalachian standard that developed among enslaved people on Southern plantations and became David Bowie’s first single.

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Second Rounder, ScreenCraft Film Fund Spring 2019

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Liza Jane

Jackson, Wyoming

Emily Cohen is the Executive Director of KHOL, Jackson Hole Community Radio. Her film Camina Conmigo (Walk with Me) was a winner in the If/Then x Redford Center pitch competition at the 2023 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Dan Gutstein is the author of eight books and chapbooks, including Poor Gal: The Cultural History of Little Liza Jane (...

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