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 africanamerican tutors or were heavily influenced by africanAmerican Music. The music itself over the decades has had very few africanamerican 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 is connected to folk, rock
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 africanamerican tutors or were heavily infl
Freedoms. Explore our nations passed on American History tv every weekend on cspan3. 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 Music had africanamerican
Counsel and Real Property negotiator. Move to move into executive session. So moved. Second. All in favor say i move that we reconvene in open session. All in favor. Aye. I move that we dont disclose anything in closed session. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item six pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that use of cell phones pagers and similar sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of anyone using a cell phone or pager or other device. Please be advised that a member of the public have three minutes to make Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter time on any item. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Call for Public Comment. [inaudible] thank you. Good afternoo
Open session. All in favor. Aye. I move that we dont disclose anything in closed session. So moved. All in favor say aye. Aye. Item six pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be advised that use of cell phones pagers and similar sound producing devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal of the meeting room of anyone using a cell phone or pager or other device. Please be advised that a member of the public have three minutes to make Public Comment on each agenda item unless the Commission Adopts a shorter time on any item. Item 8 Public Comment on items not listed on the agenda. Call for Public Comment. [inaudible] thank you. Good afternoon commissioners, president katz and commissioners. My name is John Gallagher and i sent a letter and brought copies regarding eight washin