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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 3, 2019 22:40:07 GMT -5
T-bob's post reminded me about Ken Burns's documentary about country music. It debuts on PBS Sept. 15. The trailer is frustratingly short, but it looks like it will be a good 'un.
If I know anything about Ken Burns, he'll be up late nights all the way to Sept. 14 working on the final cut.
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Post by coachdoc on Aug 4, 2019 9:08:18 GMT -5
Got to see week 6, the 40's and 50's at the Dartmouth College cinema, with Ken and one of his associate producers present to give commentary. If I don't see another minute of this, it is already seared in my mind as the most brilliant capsule of country music I've experienced. I'm on board to buy the box set already.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 4, 2019 9:27:08 GMT -5
Lucky you.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 4, 2019 9:33:55 GMT -5
I was in touch with the production team about a year ago and gave them an unpublished c. 3,000-word backgrounder paper I wrote for internal use in developing the Earl Scruggs museum, putting Scruggs in context with the development of country music. I don't expect any film credit, but it will be fun to see if I can pick out any of my stuff.
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Post by coachdoc on Aug 4, 2019 9:47:48 GMT -5
I was in touch with the production team about a year ago and gave them an unpublished c. 3,000-word backgrounder paper I wrote for internal use in developing the Earl Scruggs museum, putting Scruggs in context with the development of country music. I don't expect any film credit, but it will be fun to see if I can pick out any of my stuff. I think you will see some pretty good material he probably gleaned from your notes. Earl and crew got some pretty good attention even in this segment.
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Post by Chesapeake on Aug 4, 2019 13:48:49 GMT -5
My fascination is with the root story, which I know you all know, of how musical traditions that came over with waves of immigrants, mostly from Britain, just permeated rural, farming cultures in the days before radio and talking machines, all the way through the early 20th century. Typically every member of every family played an instrument, and the same was true of the Scruggses. Urbanization through the coming of the cotton mills brought these folks together like never before, and this regional music became ripe for discovery by broadcasters and record companies, who spread it all over the country, and eventually the world.
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