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
Response of the government after it happened. Its interesting you immediately mention says you can only get indicate is this program was attacked in the london times for introducing concepts of class with respect to what was actually had an accident as considered for us by the authorities had that accident happened in Buckingham Palace or somewhere else here years of london lets see what the response would have been nothing is free of class bias in a class of in society and disasters fall disproportionately the impact of austerity for example does not hit the upper class the way it hits people in the lower rungs of this social ladder so it Warren Buffett said theres a class war and weve won. You know he was one of these very conscious. Wealthy people who knows what that she going on is that you know of course theres a class war so you didnt create class or you just talk about it but you know its a poster i know in this book you mention it as well this generational pain that arises from
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
A Boris Johnson and other candidates for so theres no war and theres no war on drugs you cant make war on in that 100 objects youre going to be at war here and beings and the war on drugs is actually. The most traumatized segment of the population because i show in my book as research. Irrefutably and intubate of the shows the people who are most prone to drug addiction in a piece of people who are most traumatized and so that. Their response to that trauma is to try and escape from the trauma by using drugs and now were punishing them for having been traumatized in the 1st place and then me quite arbitrarily say that its ok for yourself to kill yourself with alcohol but you cant do it with heroin. I want to tell you no astonishing fact with your readers may or your listeners may find it incredible but its true give me a 1000 people who drink heavily or smoke heavily compared to 1000 people who inject heroin 4 times a day as long as they dont overdose and 20 years later many more of th
A last number of years according to recent report and then you look at the mobilization of outrage and resource and energy against the threat like there is them which is not even an infant this emote percentage of the actual threat to peoples lives and conditions right here that are causing thats like happening ground full then you can see how traumatic that is for people who are affected by it because they perceive themselves as not being cared about and as being not seen as valid human beings and thats the most painful experience is not to be seen and not to be validated and not to be supported and so it wasnt just a disaster in its own terms which is bad enough it was a disaster in terms of the. Enormity of warning signs and the absolutely heartless response of the government after it happened. Its interesting you immediately legend says you can only get indicate is this program was attacked in the london times for introducing close ups of clos with respect to what was actually had