Ken Burns The Dust Bowl

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Chase, I enjoyed Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl as well, and I believe it was for reasons that you brought up as the music and photos from the era used in its production. While reading your statement about the documentary’s “emotional power” really caught my attention and reminded me of a quote from Siobhan McHugh’s article. In her article, McHugh states that the tone of a person’s voice and the way that they tell their histories is something that a paper transcript cannot convey to its audience (McHugh, 188). Your post on The Dust Bowl documentary and the oral histories used by Burns reminded me of this quote because, as you said, the use of these personal histories is supposed to strike emotion in its audience. With videos, music, and oral history

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