Monochrome: Black, White & Blue

Monochrome: Black, White & Blue

2017 1 Seasons

Jon Brewer examines the history of blues music in America, marrying startling imagery and expert interviews with archival performances to fill in the gaps about the music itself, its origins and the impact it had and continues to have on popular music today.

Seasons

1. 1762 - 1865

2017-01-07

"The Blues", the language of the forlorn, grew from slave chants blended with many influences, proving foundational in changing the American south as slaves sought freedom, but th…

2. 1865–1968

2017-01-07

The intoxicating essence of New Orleans permeates this episode as it explores the era of Storyville, the struggle for Civil Rights, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

3. 1940–2015

2017-01-07

A look at 75 years of American history, where racism reframed inequality in the guise of a "new world", where a black American became president but young black men were killed by …

Top Cast

Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman
Jake Bugg
Jake Bugg
Irvin Mayfield
Irvin Mayfield
Lynn Jackaman
Lynn Jackaman
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John Mayall
Allen Toussaint
Allen Toussaint
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Joanne Shaw Taylor
Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite
Keb' Mo'
Keb' Mo'
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir
Morgan Molthrop
Morgan Molthrop
Robert Plant
Robert Plant

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