Posted on 09/15/2019 1:40:34 PM PDT by cowpoke
...Because sometimes you get the feeling while watching Country Music that they were afraid of offending anyone. Nowhere is this more awkwardly obvious than on those occasions where the doc bumps into the subject of race. The elephant in this room is that country is white people’s music, and the African-American artists brought in to testify to the contrary, even when they say sensible things, sound woefully like tokens. Because no matter how many country songs Ray Charles sang and no matter how many No. 1 hits Charley Pride had, country is just white to the bone. The performers were white. And so were their audiences. Likewise, the often ugly conservative and sometimes downright racist impulses articulated by more than a few performers in the ’60s and ’70s are glossed over almost completely. We don’t hear a peep about Marty Robbins recording “Ain’t I Right,” a song mocking civil rights freedom marchers, or Guy Drake, whose “Welfare Cadillac” shot to No. 5 on the country charts in 1970.
Yes-— really sharp writer with his team (Jerry Salley, and Carl Jackson— both legends on their own). Fortunately recovering from leukemia last i’ve heard, and still playing.
Still at “IT”... that is... real country music.
This is a great historical piece. I have seen the first 4.5 episodes. Highly recommend. If you want no mention of race music or liberal ideas, then turn off the TV and turn on the playstation.
Burns is amassing an impressive history of america and american culture when you look collectively at his works.
Since when does an obvious male queer worry about “women’s control of their bodies”?
He is in NO way “neutral” not historically, certainly and not with the constant “meme” he works with... right out of Zinn’s “history” lessons.
Total disregard for the REALITY of the times he “documents” adjusted to “the tut-tut” moral relativism applied from today’s “approved attitudes”.
For family— it started with the “Civil War” (which, of course it was NOT. It was a war between organized separate groups of States who came together under a Constitution, and who had supporters on either side, about the subject of secession from the Contract. Predicated on views of the time, based on... money, and the level of industry at the time in two different cultures.) Burns—All based on the Princeton History Dept’s “view” of the entire conflict. The only saving grace was the “human reality” of what the war meant for non-combatants, including slaves and freedmen, the loss of great Americans, relatives on both sides, and the horror of the slaughter.
Yeah— he ignored the very many Spanish heritage brave men who knew how to fight and volunteered as a way to citizenship. Incredible true stories, never discussed. The Marine Corps knows, of course. Burns has his own little bigotry on display, when he could have “dug a little deeper” to show how this was ALL Americans involved. Navy submarine veterans (those few still alive from WWII) will tell of the incredible bravery of the Filipino people, who worked closely with our UDT (SEAL predecessors) in aiding Australian and other nationality coastwatchers being inserted on enemy held islands— to radio in ship and troop movements.
My father had 2 good friends... Aussies, captured and beheaded by Japanese. He had a special affection for the Filipinos who saved his life several times— and appalled at the bigotry exhibited by REMFs who knew nothing of combat besides their own little worlds.
Do wish that Hanks in “The Pacific” had a longer series— to delve into more of the reality of the Pacific theater, and its definite Non-Western/Non-European reality of warfare— jungle. The British ought to do their own “The Pacific” for they indeed experienced the “peculiar” asian approach to combat and many other horrors. The Brits, especially agreed to the use of atomic weapons— because they knew the fanaticism of the bushido driven leadership.
Thank you very much for your thorough review of Ken Burns— have read all of your posts and commented on some. You are dead on correct as to “who Burns is”... and who he allows himself to delude himself to be. Like he is some great documentary creator— he is not.
His work-were it not to be subsidized by federal money and the elitists cabal— would not meet the criteria a discerning public would give it, in all truth.
This “neutrality” description you give clenches it— he is a propagandist of the worst sort. Like a kind of BBC/PBS Statist apologist for his... “rice bowl” financial types, who continue a kind of “depression” WPA project in the NPR. Nixon was sooooo wrong to create this— copying yet again the Brits (like we are being pushed to copy their Natl health system disaster socialist failure).
Thank you.
Yes—— I SECOND the LMAO!!! Excellent!
Makes me think of an episode which i cannot find from the original Paul Hogan comedy series in Australia.
The bit was “On the Trail of the Wild Whino”.... done exactly like a nature documentary, complete with whispered dialogue and the “decoy sound” lure to roust the winos.... a squeaky cork in an empty wine bottle! Annnnd, they slowly raise up in an alley from under piles of trash!! Hilarious!
Closest I could find— Paul Hogan in the UK— as a “naturalist”- who finds English “wildlife” including the “rare, Pommy Public Servant”.... etc.. Dang funny!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O18fXpxhpk
“Conservatives in the Mist”-— that is a keeper!!
Catching niblets while doing stuff around the house. Seems like I have seen some of these interviews before....
Watching ep 2. Lots of jabs at white males. Minnie Pearl had some big ol hits....old pic when she was young, kinda showwing them off.
She was an upper class interloper ala lady gaga. She were no coal miners daughter.
Getting political of course. Burns is a libtard.
I will probably watch the whole thing, just not going to binge it.
Yeah, I concur. Everything has to play in.....everything. I take it with salt.
Taking my time through it, cause a couple-three times, I wanted to grab a guitar or the banjo. (Guitars in every room)
I am driving the ol lady crazy.
ps: cap the A in America, please. Thank you.
N-joy
I thought Chris Gaines did :o)
Burns is amassing an impressive commie colored history of america and american culture when you look collectively at his works.
Yeah, I’m on episode 7 and loving it. Maybe tomorrow I’ll go down and register as a commie who loves country music, baseball, and jazz.
Well yes of course. I am expecting a documentary on Burns tansitioning into a woman any day now. Half joking.
He looks a little like John Denver
Well put.
Mr. Stewart, please refrain from cosmetics...
Burns slandered my beloved bums, the Brooklyn Dodgers of the 1950’s. He raised the nasty, chip-on-his-shoulder Jackie Robinson to be a saint, and put down great Christian men like PeeWee Reese, Gil Hodges, Preacher Roe, etc. He made the players from the south into racist demons. Thank goodness, other books, like “The Boys of Summer”, set the record straight!
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