Roots of Music: Tony Brown's Journal: TV Schedule: Rocky Mountain PBS

The historical and mythical African past was all but destroyed by slavery. There remained one instrumentality that slavery could not destory – the oral tradition of the slaves' African heritage – through music. Dr. Wyatt T. Walker, a close ally of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, conducts a very visual lesson in original American music.

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