От издателя "A mighty achievement Thank you" John Lennon "it's the definitive musical history lesson for anyone interested in discovering just how dozens of different threads of sound caачръгn come together into one massive, magnificent musical tapestry" Neil Pond American Profile "this is one of the music DVD releases of the year" Irish Times It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa;бзмшп that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz originated, somehow, in New Orleans; that the blues developed in the Mississippi Delta, and later became the cornerstone of every thing from rock 'n' roll to ragtime All of these assumptions are untrue, and this episode will seek to uncover the real story - in Africa, on the edge of the Sahara; in Austria and the Salzkammergut; in the Ozark mountains of Arkansas; in New Orleans and in Texas Режиссер: Тони Палмер Тбпыуоворческий коллектив Дополнительные материалы Режиссер Тони Палмер Tony Palmer Актеры (показать всех актеров) Лайтнин Хопкинс Lightnin' Hopkins Дюк Эллингтон Duke Ellington Эллингтон Эдвард Кеннеди ( "Дюк" (от англ Duke — герцог) родился 29 апреля 1899 года в Вашингтоне Музыке начал обучаться с 7 лет, в 1914 поступил в Armstrong High School, в 1917 зачислен стипендиатом в Pratts' Institute of Applied Arts в Бруклине, где Руфус Томас Rufus Thomas.