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Banjo Romantika American Bluegrass Music The Czech Imagination
56 minDocumentary
No other place in the world has a romance with American bluegrass like the Czech Republic Banjo Romantika introduces the musicians who play this unique bluegrass hybrid Czechs first heard bluegrass during World War II when the Armed Forces Network broadcast American music for soldiers The music represented freedom to dissatisfied Czechs living in a communist state Czechs love for the music was solidified when Pete Seeger visited and performed in 1964 Inspired by classic American bluegrass sounds an assortment of musicians from across the formerly communist Czech Republic have melded the past the political and the present into a lively musical tradition entirely its own
