TY - ADVS AU - Bigood,Lee AU - K.Lange,Shara AU - Malina,Luboš AU - Čermák,Marko AU - Bureš,Zbyněk AU - Roh,Zdeněk ED - Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), ED - Kanopy (Firm), TI - Banjo Romantika PY - 2012/// PB - Documentary Educational Resources KW - Communism KW - Balts (Indo-European people) KW - Artists KW - Music KW - Documentary films KW - lcgft N1 - Title from title frames; Film; In Process Record; Luboš Malina, Marko Čermák, Zbyněk Bureš, Zdeněk Roh; Originally produced by Documentary Educational Resources in 2012 N2 - 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 UR - https://tus.kanopy.com/node/5469198 UR - https://www.kanopy.com/node/5469198/external-image ER -