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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bernard MacMahon; Allison McGourty; Elijah Wald |
ISBN: | 9781501135606 1501135600 9781501135613 1501135619 |
OCLC Number: | 1026512987 |
Notes: | At head of title: T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford, Jack White present. "The companion book to the PBS series." |
Description: | 279 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The first time America heard herself -- I'll get a break someday: Will Shade and the Memphis Jug Band -- In the shadow of Clinch Mountain: The Carter Family -- My heart keeps singing: Elder J.E. Burch -- Gonna die with my hammer in my hand: Dick Justice and the Williamson Brothers -- Down the dirt road: Charley Patton and the Mississippi Delta Blues -- Chant of the snake dance: The Hopi Indian Chanters -- Bird of paradise: Joseph Kekuku -- Mal hombre: Lydia Mednoza -- Allons Lafayette: The Breaux Family -- Avalon blues: Mississippi John Hurt -- The American epic sessions -- Travel and the crew. |
Other Titles: | T Bone Burnett, Robert Redford, Jack White present American epic : |
Responsibility: | by Bernard MacMahon and Allison McGourty with Elijah Wald. |
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"We traveled the length of America in our quest to discover the stories of America's earliest recorded musicians." -- Allison McGourty, Producer "American Epic is the story of one of the great moments in American history -when the voices of working people, minorities, and rural people throughout the country were first heard." -- Bernard MacMahon, Director "These musicians we profile are the real American heroes. They set out from the darkness with nothing but a guitar on their backs, and put out their thumbs and conquered the world." -- T. Bone Burnett, Executive Producer "This is America's greatest untold story." -- Robert Redford, Executive Producer "In American Epic we can examine how important the fact is that when phonograph records were invented, for the first time ever, women, minorities, poor rural men and even children were given the opportunity to say whatever they wanted in song, for the whole world to hear, shockingly without much censorship." -- Jack White, Executive Producer Read more...


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