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American Epic: The First Time America Heard Itself is a collaborative memoir written by film director Bernard MacMahon, producer Allison McGourty, and music historian Elijah Wald. The book chronicles the 10-year odyssey researching and making the American Epic documentary series and The American Epic Sessions.
American Epic is a documentary series* about rural musicians from the 1920s and 1930s. In the mid-20s, recorded music was still marketed to urban consumers, but the popularity of radio was threatening commercial record companies.
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May 2, 2017 · The companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrating the pioneers and artists of American roots music—blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, Native American—without which there would be no jazz, rock, country R&B, or hip hop today.
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- Atria Books
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- Bernard MacMahon, Allison McGourty
American Epic is a historical music project exploring the pivotal recording journeys of the early twentieth century, which for the first time captured the breadth of American music and made it available to the world. It was, in a very real way, the first time America truly heard herself.
Sep 18, 2013 · It is no coincidence that Epps titles his book American Epic, since it is that style of reading that pervades his innovative enterprise of constitutional interpretation. Walt Whitman, Epps tells us, considered his epic poem, “Leaves of Grass,” to be “a companion work to the Constitution.”
American Epic is a documentary film series about the first recordings of roots music in the United States during the 1920s and their cultural, social and technological impact on North America and the world. [1]
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I shall contend that the American epic did not expire in the first quarter of the nineteenth century only to be revived, in troublingly imagistic form, by such dissimilar poets as Pound, Crane, and Williams a century later.
