Nashville 2.0 – The Rise of Americana (2013) is a documentary that explores the sounds of Americana, a term used to group music that does not fit nicely in their respective genres. Musicians under the Americana umbrella draw inspiration from a mixture of country, folk, bluegrass, R&B, blues, jazz, roots rock, gospel, rockabilly, honky-tonk, alternative rock, folk rock, and punk. Nashville 2.0 highlights veteran and newer musicians like Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rosanne Cash, The Avett Brothers, The Mavericks, Jason Isbell and many others. Nashville 2.0 also …
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I stumbled upon some clips of a CMT documentary Waiting in the Wings about African Americans in country music from 2004. Contrary to popular image and narrative of country music being mainly a white Euro-American rural based music, this CMT documentary sought to explore the contributions of African American country musicians over the years and the African influences on the early development of country music. Unfortunately I couldn’t find a full stream of this documentary. If anyone has any leads leave …
Last Tuesday July 29, 2014 Legendary Jazz drummer Idris Muhammad passed away at the age of 74 in New Orleans, Louisiana. His drum sounds are heavily coveted and sampled by Hip-Hop artists and artists from other drum-centric genres . RIP. [NY Times] [The Times Picayune][BoingBoing] Wax Poetic’s magazine interview with Idris Muhammad from 2001. [Wax Poetics] Democracy Now August 8th, 2014 headlines. [Democracy Now] The Brazilian bus magnate who’s buying up all the world’s vinyl records. [NY Times] Why nerdy white guys …
Actor Warwick Davis (Return of Jedi, Willow, Leprechaun, Harry Potter, Life’s Too Short) investigates the story of the Ovitz family (the only surviving family of Jewish little people entertainers from the Nazi concentration camp in Auschwitz, Germany) in the 2013 documentary The Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz. Davis takes a look at the persecution (and eventual extermination) faced by those deemed undesirable by the Nazi German state (Jews, Romani, LGBT, little people, disabled people etc.), and tries to discover the story behind the Ovitz …
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and producer Daniel Bogado traveled to Gaza in 2013 to make Unreported World – Gaza’s Property Ladder. The documentary focuses on the strange property/construction boom in this region of the world where ongoing war and conflict would suggests such a boom shouldn’t be happening. Syyi and Daniel talk to real estate agents, tunnel smugglers, Gaza’s old money and new money millionaires and how they are prospering under war and conflict. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Syyi and Daniel focus on ordinary working …
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