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Surveillance Special: Ken Burns on "Country Music" (Podcast)

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3.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Ken Burns, Documentary Filmmaker, joins Tom Keene and Paul Sweeney for a discussion on his latest film, "Country Music." Burns discusses iconic Martin guitars, the modernization of the genre, and country music's role in U.S. history. 

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Join us in New York on November 29th for the Bloomberg Canadian Finance Conference,

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proudly sponsored by National Bank of Canada Financial Markets.

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2023 marks the 11 year anniversary of our Canada focused event and continues the tradition of providing timely

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insights and actionable strategies. We'll have senior government

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officials from Saskatchewan, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario as well

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as speakers from Northland Power, World Bank, Transolta, and many more.

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Register at Bloomberg Live.com I'm Tom Keene.

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Daily, we bring you insight from the best

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in economics, finance, investment, and international relations.

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In a moment here, we're going to go to truly one of the recent cultural successes of the nation.

1:04.5

That is the PBS series country music with Ken Burns.

1:08.0

And of course, this comes off his magisterial effort

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on Vietnam a number of years ago. Of course we know of baseball and the

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Civil War long before. I mean he really he has invented and sustained a genre

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Paul. It really is that he's really taking documentary filmmaking

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to another level and it you know really all started for me for that Civil War

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series it came out in 1990 which can't remember it's that long ago, but it really helped, I think, a whole generation

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kind of just rekindle the interest with the Civil War.

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And then, of course, he continued it with Baseball, which was, you know, at a big part of Americana.

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The courage of country music is Mr Burns has had the courage to go back to the foundation

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