Burns and his associates could not have known when they started work onCountry Musicin 2010 how significant race would be in the 2019 cultural landscape.Barack Obamawas in his second year as the nation’s first black president, and some citizens believed that racism was a thing of the past....
As for Burns, he fiercely dismisses the notion that country music is any less weighty a topic than his previous documentaries. “A lot of people have segregated and imprisoned country music in a very narrow band,” he says. “American history is much more than just the sequence of presidenti...
The 1912 to 1933 U.S. occupation of Nicaragua was part of the“Banana Wars,” a period of various military interventions, massacres, and actionsby the U.S. throughout the Caribbean and Central America following the Spanish-American War’s 1898 conclusion and the 1934 establishment of the Goo...
As for Burns, he fiercely dismisses the notion that country music is any less weighty a topic than his previous documentaries. “A lot of people have segregated and imprisoned country music in a very narrow band,” he says. “American history is much more than just the sequence of presidenti...