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American Songster: The Many Voices of Dom Flemons
As a founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band, Dom, a multi-instrumentalist, was able to explore his interest in bringing traditional music to new audiences. The band won a GRAMMY for its 2011 album Genuine Negro. On stage, Flemons rolls from one instrument to another with a fearless attitude toward tradition and repertoire, playing banjo, guitar, harmonica, fife, bones, bass drum, snare drum, and quills.
Reflecting on his unique experience getting into the old-time music, Flemons explains, "A lot of people ask me, how do you do this old-time music and have it stay contemporary to you as a person? What people forget is that on stage I might be playing music that's 100 years-old, but that doesn't mean my ears are only listening to music that's 100 years-old. I got into this via old rock and roll, sixties rock and folk and went back from there."
Flemons further elaborates on the connections he discovered between different traditional music genres, stating, "A couple of things got me into thinking about how to smash all of it together, particularly Mike Seeger's way of taking different kinds of traditional music and putting them together to make new music. And being into the songsters like Lead Belly and Henry Thomas, I heard them and knew they weren't doing straight blues like Robert Johnson and Skip James. I always wondered how it all fit, so when I met Joe and found out about the black string-band stuff, that was where the connections started happening - these songsters fit into this broader string band and folk music tradition and then you have things like blues and jazz, and even gospel music, wrapped up in it."
The DVD, which has a running time of 76 minutes, is region 0 and playable worldwide, allowing audiences around the globe to experience Flemons' unique and captivating performance.
product information:
| Attribute | Value | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mpaa_rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | ||||
| product_dimensions | 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 2.82 ounces | ||||
| item_model_number | 43382079 | ||||
| director | Dom Flemons | ||||
| media_format | NTSC | ||||
| run_time | 1 hour and 16 minutes | ||||
| release_date | January 20, 2017 | ||||
| actors | Dom Flemons | ||||
| studio | Vestapol | ||||
| country_of_origin | USA | ||||
| number_of_discs | 1 | ||||
| best_sellers_rank | #313,874 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV) #19,510 in Special Interests (Movies & TV) | ||||
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