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When Ken Burns's PBS documentary Jazz was shown in 2001, many critics hovered over the gaps and slights in his sweeping narrative. When Martin Scorsese's much anticipated seven-part series The Blues is broadcast on PBS (from September 28 through October 4), undoubtedly there will be professional and water-cooler critics similarly outraged by sins of omission. Expect...
Is 'The Blues' Black Enough?
By STEPHEN ASMAWhen Ken Burns's PBS documentary Jazz was shown in 2001, many critics hovered over the gaps and slights in his sweeping narrative. When Martin Scorsese's much anticipated seven-part series The Blues is broadcast on PBS (from September 28 through October 4), undoubtedly there will be professional and water-cooler critics similarly outraged by sins of omission. Expect...
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