It filtered out of secluded hollows deep in the mountains, and from smoky saloons on the edges of town from the barrios along the southern border and from the wide-open spaces of the western range. “It came from the fiddle tunes they danced to on Saturday nights to let off steam, and from the hymns they chanted in church on Sunday mornings. “Country music rose from the bottom up, from the songs Americans sang to themselves in farm fields and railroad yards, to ease them through their labors, and songs they sang to each other on the porches and in the parlors of their homes when the day’s work was done,” narrator Peter Coyote says in voiceover at the film’s beginning. But country’s roots “go back centuries to the British Isles, to Africa, to minstrel shows of the 1840s, gospel hymns, patent medicine shows … was still being passed down, person to person and family to family,” Duncan said. The film, which ends around 1996, starts by tracing country’s history in 1923, when Peer recorded Fiddlin’ John Carson in Atlanta. “It was principally in the South, but it was everywhere,” elaborated Duncan, who wrote the script and is also principal author of the companion book “Country Music: An Illustrated History,” due Sept. “Everywhere,” the three insisted in near unison when asked where country music originated. Dayton Duncan, Julie Dunfey, Ken Burns | Courtesy of Evan Barlowīurns and longtime co-producers Dayton Duncan and Julie Dunfey affirmed country’s diverse origins during a July 27 roundtable interview at the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles.
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