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An interview with Valerie Simpson and James Finney

Title
An interview with Valerie Simpson and James Finney / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Author
Simpson, Valerie, 1946-
Publication
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Finney, James
  • Murray, James Briggs
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Description
2 videodiscs (34 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
James Finney and Valerie Simpson discuss the advantages of plats while he grooms and styles her hair; worked together since 1975; plats a way of life; convenience; popularization of plats; look of plats; image it creates for Valerie; ability to grow hair without extensions; combing black hair; inquiries about Valerie's hair; first meeting; hair on album covers; styling Valerie's hair with heat; durability of plats during a performance; freedom from hairdresser; swimming; weightlessness of black hair; plats part of her image; song "Solid as a Rock"; finished look.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Interviews.
  • Black films and programs.
  • Nonfiction films.
Note
  • Recorded at the home of Valerie Simpson.
Terms of Use (note)
  • Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  • James Finney is a hairdresser who designed plats as a hair grooming technique and Valerie Simpson is a songwriter and singer.
Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1326
OCLC
936214843
Author
Simpson, Valerie, 1946- interviewee.
Title
An interview with Valerie Simpson and James Finney / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture ; interview conducted by James Briggs Murray.
Publisher
New York : Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, 1986.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
Type of Medium
video
Type of Carrier
videodisc
Digital File Characteristics
video file DVD
Terms Of Use
Copyright by New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
Event
Recorded October 28, 1986.
Biography
James Finney is a hairdresser who designed plats as a hair grooming technique and Valerie Simpson is a songwriter and singer.
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Added Author
Finney, James, interviewee.
Murray, James Briggs, interviewer.
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Research Call Number
Sc Visual DVD-1326
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