American Epic (film series)
2017
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Episode Guide
- 4. Sessions Jun 1, 2017
- Contemporary artists use equipment from the 1920s to record music.
- 3. Out of the Many, the One May 30, 2017
- America's diverse cultures contribute to its musical styles; Mississippi John Hurt.
- 2. Blood and Soil May 23, 2017
- Charley Patton and Elder Burch record Delta blues, gospel music and protest songs in the South.
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American Epic. Travel the country in search of unknown 1920s artists, when the music of ordinary Americans was recorded for the first time, transforming music forever, in a three-part film narrated by Robert Redford, featuring Jack White, Nas, Taj Mahal and others. Preview. Preview: Out of the Many, the One.
- Episode 101: “The Big Bang”
- Episode 102: “Blood and Soil”
- Episode 103: “Out of The Many, The One”
- The American Epic Sessions
Synopsis At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the breadth of American music and discover the artists that would shape our world. The recordings they made of all the ethnic groups of America democratized the nation and gave a voice to everyone. It was the f...
Synopsis From the sanctified shout of the gospel church to the coal mines of West Virginia to the cotton fields of Mississippi, music provided relief from tough lives and hard times. New rhythms were born in the echoes of stomping feet, the bite of pick-axes and the ambling gait of tired mules. Almost a century later, the quest for singers remember...
Synopsis Exotic cultures spanning America are captured on record for the first time — inventing new instruments and new cultural identities as disparate voices harmonize in a musical melting pot. The myriad threads of America’s musical tapestry include Hopi priests traveling to Washington to defend their sacred snake dance; an 11-year-old Hawaiian ...
Synopsis In THE AMERICAN EPIC SESSIONS, the American Epic team has reassembled the very first electrical sound recording system from the 1920s, and invited Jack White and T Bone Burnett to produce an album of recordings by twenty of today’s greatest artists. In this beautifully filmed musical feature, these artists are given the chance to pass thro...
American Epic. 2017 -2017. 1 Season. PBS. Documentary, Music. TVPG. Watchlist. The story of record company talent scouts who toured America during the late 1920s with a recording machine and ...
- Robert Redford
- 1
American Epic is an award-winning 3-part documentary series about the first recordings of rural music in the U.S.A. and their cultural, social and technological impact on the world. In the 1920s, record companies in search of new styles and markets sought out regional musicians, from the streets of Memphis to the Western prairies and the ...
AMERICAN EPIC takes us on a journey across time to the birth of modern music, when the musical strands of a diverse nation first combined, sparking a cultura...
