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DVD

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  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection [EPISODES 1 & 2]
  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection [EPISODES 3 & 4]
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American roots music

Author

Jim Brown

Call Numbers

  • DVD 781.62 A51277 EPISODES 1 & 2 (CEN)
  • DVD 781.62 A51277 EPISODES 3 & 4 (CEN)

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Performers

Various performers ; narrated by Kris Kristofferson.

Publication Information

New York, NY : Palm Pictures, c2001.

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (4 hrs.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

This program features historic and documentary footage of many of the 20th century's pioneering artists, including Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bob Wills, Hank Williams, Bill Monroe, Earl Scruggs, Mahalia Jackson, Clifton Chenier and Woody Guthrie. From city or country, black or white, these sounds emerged from a cultural maze to define our country's musical heritage. These are the "roots" of America's popular music - blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of the production originally broadcast as a television series.

Not rated.

Bonus material includes: Disc 1. Sitting on top of the world (Bob Willis) ; Foggy mountain breakdown (Earl Scruggs) ; Never no mo' blues (Doc Watson) -- Disc 2. Down by the riverside (Sister Rosetta Tharpe) ; Ossun two-step (Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys) ; Rosalito (Valerio Longoria).

"A collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Experience Music Project, Palm Pictures and Ginger Group Productions."

Special features include: Previously unavailable archival footage ; timeline of American roots music.

Contents

  • Episode 1, When first unto this country. Fisk Jubilee Singers ; Recorded music ; The Bristol sessions ; Delta blues ; The Grand Ole Opry ; Gospel is born
  • Episode 2, This land was made for you and me. Cowboy music & western swing ; Lead Belly & Lomax ; Woody Guthree ; Bluegrass ; Honky tonk ; The blues & radio
  • Episode 3, The times they are a-changin'. Chicago blues ; B.B. King ; Golden age of gospel ; The Weavers ; The folk revival ; Newport Folk Festival
  • Episode 4, All my children of the sun. Cajun ; Zydeco ; Tejano ; Native American ; Nakai & Mirabal ; Evolution of roots.

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