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American roots music / a Ginger Group production ; Jim Brown, director ; Jim Brown, Sam Pollard and Jeff Rosen, producers ; written by Charles Wolfe.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 84 Discs 1-2 (in 2 containers inserted in 1 box)
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Wolfe, Charles, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk music--United States.
- Folk music.
- United States.
- Popular music--United States.
- Popular music.
- Folk music--United States--History and criticism.
- Popular music--United States--History and criticism.
- Television mini-series.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Television mini-series.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- NY, NY : Palm Pictures [distributor], [2001]
- System Details:
- DVD; all regions; NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- all regions
- Summary:
- Features historic and documentary footage of 20th century pioneering artists. Includes blues, country, gospel, folk, Cajun, zydeco, bluegrass, tejano and Native American music. Special features include web links and previews of Palm Pictures productions.
- Contents:
- Disc 1. 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
- Disc 2. 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.
- Participant:
- Various performers; narrated by Kris Kristofferson.
- Credits:
- Senior editor, Sam Pollard; directors of photography, Bob Boccaccio, Peter Pilafian, Bob Fiore. "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"--Set container.
- Notes:
- Title from set container.
- Originally broadcast as a television series.
- In two containers inserted in one box.
- Bonus material: Disc 1. Bob Willis ; Earl Scruggs ; Doc Watson -- Disc 2. Sister Rosetta Tharpe ; Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys ; Valerio Longoria.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.
- OCLC:
- 48436524
- Publisher Number:
- PALMDVD-3039-2 Palm Pictures
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