Jazz, Episode 8, Risk

Resource Information

The work Jazz, Episode 8, Risk represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Jazz, Episode 8, Risk

Title number

Episode 8

Title part

Risk

Statement of responsibility

a production of Florentine Films and WETA, Washington D.C. in association with BBC ; a film by Ken Burns. --

Title variation

Risk

Contributor

• Florentine Films
• WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)
• Burns, Ken, 1953-

Subject

• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Documentary television programs
• Jazz
• Jazz -- History and criticism
• Jazz musicians

Genre

• Documentary television programs

Language

eng

Summary

Despite the escalation of the Cold War and the growing threat of nuclear annihilation, America achieves a level of growth and prosperity unimaginable just a few years earlier. The nation's musical tastes are changing too, as young people turn to sentimental singers and rhythm and blues

Member of

• Jazz (Television program)

Cataloging source

DPL

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Directed by Ken Burns; written by Geoffrey C. Ward; produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

Dewey number

781/.65

Language note

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired

PerformerNote

Narrated by Keith David

Runtime

120

Series statement

PBS DVD gold

Technique

live action