Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
Jon Brewer examines the history of blues music in America, marrying startling imagery and expert interviews with archival performances to fill in the gaps about the music itself, its origins and the impact it had and continues to have on popular music today.
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Seasons
1.1762 - 1865
07-01-201760m"The Blues", the language of the forlorn, grew from slave chants blended with many influences, proving foundational in changing the American south as slaves sought freedom, but the...
2.1865–1968
07-01-201760mThe intoxicating essence of New Orleans permeates this episode as it explores the era of Storyville, the struggle for Civil Rights, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.
3.1940–2015
07-01-201760mA look at 75 years of American history, where racism reframed inequality in the guise of a "new world", where a black American became president but young black men were killed by p...
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