Monochrome: Black, White & Blue (2017)
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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Episodes
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1. 1762 - 18652017-01-07 · 1h 0m"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
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2. 1865–19682017-01-07 · 1h 0mThe 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.
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3. 1940–20152017-01-07 · 1h 0mA 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
Cast
Morgan FreemanSelf
Jake BuggSelf
Irvin MayfieldSelf
Lynn JackamanSelfJohn MayallSelf
Allen ToussaintSelf
Joanne Shaw TaylorSelf
Charlie MusselwhiteSelf
Keb' Mo'Self
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuirSelf
Morgan MolthropSelf
Robert PlantSelf
Jimmy PageSelf
BonoSelfImages
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