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On April 23, 2018, the Focal International Awards nominated American Epic for Best Use of Footage in a History Feature and Best Use of Footage in a Music Production. [27] Many critics have cited the American Epic films as being one of the best music documentaries ever made.
The film's title sequence begins with a series of cards announcing that “In 1925 the invention of electrical sound recording revolutionized the phonograph industry.In 1926 this equipment was taken across America to record rural music for the very first time – blues, gospel, Cajun, country, Hawaiian, Native American and more…Only a few of these machines were made, and none are known to ...
[77] Elizabeth Nelson in Men's Journal observed that "over the decades, many filmmakers have dealt with the rich and woolly topic of American roots music, but few have ever approached the ambition of the current three-part PBS documentary American Epic. An immersive and panoramic overview of American song in the 20th century, the film tramps an ...
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.
The album was compiled by the American Epic film producers and co-writers Allison McGourty, Duke Erikson and director Bernard MacMahon to provide an overview of the country and folk music researched for the documentary series and as a sampler of the music featured on the 5-CD box set American Epic: The Collection. [2] [3]
Netflix’s “American Symphony,” which follows Grammy and Oscar winner Jon Batiste as he prepares for his performance at Carnegie Hall, leads the 2023 Critics Choice Documentary Award ...
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison; Air Guitar Nation; Alive Inside: A Story of Music and Memory; Always for Pleasure; The American Epic Sessions; American Harmony; American Roots Music; American Symphony (film) Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer; Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp
A young Jimmy Carter was no stranger to gospel music growing up in the small rural town of Plains, Georgia during the ’20s and early ’30’. He heard it sung by Black tenant farmers working on ...