| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 52 sec.) ; 304477357 bytes |
| Series |
Country Music ; Series 1, Episode 3 |
| Summary |
Acclaimed documentary maker Ken Burns explores the history of country music from its roots to its mainstream popularity. Country music adapts to the cultural changes of post-war society. Bill Monroe, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs transform traditional string band music into something more syncopated: bluegrass. Out of the bars and juke joints comes a new sound with electric guitars and songs about drinking, cheating, and heartbreak: honky-tonk. Its biggest star is Hank Williams, a singer and songwriter of surprising emotional depth, derived from his troubled and tragically short life |
| Notes |
Closed captioning in English |
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Classification PG ACMA |
| Subject |
Williams, Hank, 1923-1953.
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Conduct of life.
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Country music.
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Documentary television programs.
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Social change.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Burns, Ken, director.
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Coyote, Peter, contributor.
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