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Country Music is a documentary miniseries created and directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan that premiered on PBS on September 15, 2019. The eight-part series chronicles the history and prominence of country music in American culture .
Country Music (2019, 8 episodes) [75] Hemingway (2021, with Lynn Novick; 3 episodes) [76] Muhammad Ali (2021, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon; 4 episodes) [77] Benjamin Franklin (2022, 2 episodes) [78] The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022, 3 episodes, 7 hours total; produced and directed with the assistance of Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein) [79]
The series claims to survey jazz from 1917 up through 2001, but only one of the 10 episodes deals with music made after 1960. It is uneven to a startling degree.
Get ready for a grand ole doc’ry. Country fans have been thirsty for years just to get a release date for, much less see, Ken Burns' characteristically epic documentary on the genre. A delivery ...
Filmmaker Ken Burns’ “Country Music” — 2019’s eight-part, 16-hour docuseries about the origins and history of country music — inevitably includes details about the Black contributions ...
On November 7, 2000, 22 companion single-artist compilation albums, all titled Ken Burns Jazz, were released by the Verve and Columbia/Legacy labels. [2] A five-CD box set, Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music, was also released, along with a single album sampler of that box set (The Best of Ken Burns Jazz).
In 2019, a partnership between The Better Angels Society, the Library of Congress, and the Crimson Lion Foundation announced the creation of the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, an award “to recognize exemplary accomplishment in historical documentaries,” and “to recognize a filmmaker whose documentary uses original research and compelling narrative to tell stories ...
Filmmaker Ken Burns' latest documentary series, 'The U.S. and the Holocaust,' draws parallels to the recent rise in American nationalism and antisemitism.