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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 african-american tutors or were heavily influenced by african-american music. the music itself over the decades has had very few african-american 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 i ....
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 african-american tuto ....
freedoms. explore our nations passed on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. 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 mus ....
david: so welcome, everybody. we are so glad to have you here. i want to say a few words about the 50th and the library. we have had a sit and listen to nancy thanking everybody. can we please thank her for what she does every day? [applause] every day. [applause] and those of you who know me know that i think libraries are the cat s meow. [laughter] that is from someone allergic to cats. [laughter] it is unbelievably important, more important than ever. it is not the stacks, as great as they are. it is not the books, as essential as they are, it is the people, the information professionals. i cannot thank you enough, not only at the smithsonian but on behalf of a grateful country to put your money into something like this and put your emotional and moral intellectual support behind an endeavor that is more and more important. i want to mention a couple things about your opening remarks. you said our guest made at least 21 movies. that is specifically correct, but we sa ....
[applause and cheers] david: so welcome everybody. i want to say a few words about the 50th and the library. we have had a sit and listen to nancy thanking everybody. let thank her for what she does every day, every day. [applause] and those of you who know me know that i think libraries are the cat s meow. that is from someone allergic to cats. it is more important than ever. it is not the stacks, as great as they are. it is not the books, as essential as they are, it is the people, the information professionals. i cannot thank you enough, not only at the smithsonian but on behalf of a grateful country to put your money into something like this and put your emotional and moral intellectual support behind an endeavor that is more and more important. i want to mention a couple things about your opening remarks. you said our guest made at least 21 movies. that is specifically correct, but we thought there were more. let s go over the numbers. i will thank you not to bring ....