Nancy Kalow

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Interests Welcome to Documentary Starts Here! I teach at Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies and serve on the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival's Selection Committee. I've been documenting folklife - traditional music - material culture - and a variety of communities since 1986 when I began graduate school in Folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love all documentary work - audio - writing - photography - but for this blog the subject is mainly documentary film and video. Thank you for your comments and suggestions. Send to documentarystartshere (at) gmail.com. All errors and omissions are my own. The title is a tribute to Art Tatum's "Piano Starts Here."