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#Pbs martin scorsese presents the blues feel like going home series
The Blues cross-platform media event crescendoed in the fall with the TV series and was amplified by immense media coverage and buzz. To capture the authentic emotional resonance of the blues, The Blues took to the road and to the people with “The Year of the Blues.” Kicking off in early 2003 with the Congressional Proclamation and a landmark, star-studded concert at Radio City Music Hall with 50+ artists, “The Year of the Blues” was celebrated “On the Road” with a national schedule of 120+ high-profile and grassroots film, music, and heritage events. In addition to the TV series featuring scores of blues and music greats, The Blues cross-platform project included a content-rich Web site on PBS.org a 13-part companion radio series distributed by Pubic Radio International a companion book by HarperCollins a high-profile concert at Radio City Music Hall a theatrically-released concert film directed by Antoine Fuqua a cadre of music CDs and DVDs/videos from Sony and Universal a traveling museum exhibit by Experience Music Project high school music and social studies curriculum and an extensive “On the Road” grassroots tour of film, music, and cultural events. Produced by Vulcan Productions and Road Movies, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, and sponsored by Volkswagen, the TV series anchored a cross-platform media project- on air, online, in print, in schools, and on the road-designed to raise awareness of the blues and its contribution to American culture and music. To change all that, on September 28, 2003, Martin Scorsese Presents theīlues-a week-long primetime film festival broadcast of seven impressionistic independent documentary films-each directed by a different film visionary including Martin Scorsese, Wim Wenders, Clint Eastwood, Mark Levin, Richard Pearce, Mike Figgis, and Charles Burnett-premiered nationally on PBS. Common perception was that the blues was a nearly defunct, sad, and overly simplistic art form that spoke only to African Americans. Blues music sales were down and the genre was often combined with other categories to form hybrids with broader appeal.
While a handful of blues legends remained, very few recognizable younger artists represented the next blues generation. By the turn of the twentieth century, the supremely American music genre-the blues-had suffered a downward slide in popularity and was under acknowledged for its profound influence on virtually all music-soul, country, rock ’n’ roll, hip-hop, and jazz.
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