Is filled with extraordinary, great creativity, and engaging almost all of the themes and some themes subthemes we have dealt with in the past 40 years in filmmaking. Race, gender, commerce, we came off our vietnam series and a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican tutors or were heavily influenced by africanAmerican Music. The music itself over the decades has had very few africanamerican stars, it has is not an island nation separated by water from Everything Else. It is connected to jazz and the blues and rhythm and blues. With rhythm and it is the parent of rock n roll and is connected to folk, rock
Host joining us now is documentary filmmaker ken burns, talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. What convinced you this was a topic worth exploring . Guest we are looking for good stories in american history, ones that are firing on all cylinders and hold of the complicated history of who we are. Is filled with extraordinary, great creativity, and engaging almost all of the themes and some themes subthemes we have dealt with in the past 40 years in filmmaking. Race, gender, commerce, we came off our vietnam series and a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican tutors or were heavily infl
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Freedoms. Explore our nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. Joining us now is ken burns talking about his latest project looking at Country Music. Thank you for joining us. This isvinced you that a topic worth exploring . We are always looking for good stories in American History that are firing on all cylinders. Country music was filled with the stories. Engagingativity and almost all of the themes that we dealt with over the last 40 years of filmmaking. Race, gender, region, creativity versus commerce. All of these wonderful things. And a series where people die of broken hearts. Not by the millions, but of broken hearts. That there the themes that compromise this fact embrace . How does Country Music fact of race . Guest we do this a disservice. Country music comes down to us when we presume something about Country Music, but the banjo, one of the central instruments with the fiddle, is from africa. The major early stars of Country Music had africanamerican
Me and that are me, of course, but it excludes a lot of people in his base as well. And i think that hes trying to divide so he can conquer, not unite so we can all conquer. Anything he can do that is not all Megan Rapinoe said early today starts right now good monday morning im phillip mena and im frances rivera. Great being back with you again. Its been a couple of weeks. Sure has. Everybody its hard to leave vacation, right . But when you love your job as much as i do, makes it a little bit better well, glad to have you back we begin with communities under water, coastal ones, as tropical depression barry churns over the south floods putting people in louisiana and six other states as barrnt battle wn the coast guard rescued 12 people left stranded in flooded homes. Kerry sanders is in louisiana with the latest. Reporter good morning, frances. The flood waters are lower than they were, but the troubles here in louisiana are far from over in louisiana, barry still making a mess omino