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- Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
- The life of the legendary Jelly Roll Morton, the colorful New Orleans piano player who invented Jazz.
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- This Is Ragtime: The Birth of American Music is a television musical documentary intended for distribution via streaming, cable and PBS networks and well as in educational channels. The documentary will derive from source material in Terry Waldo's award-winning book, This Is Ragtime, and will feature newly produced and other recorded versions of the original music as performed by the greatest interpreters of Ragtime. These segments will be interlaced with narration, fascinating talks with musicians and historians, photos, and rare historic film footage. The documentary will tell the intriguing story of Ragtime from its beginnings in slave music and the "red light districts" through its various revivals during the twentieth century. Evolving from diverse European and African sources, it first appeared in 1897 and immediately became a "syncopated rage." America went "Ragtime Mad." This new music endured for twenty years as the nation's favorite form of "pop." And as George and Ira Gershwin stated in their first collaboration: "The Real American Folk Song Is a Rag." The program will illuminate the lives and contributions of the original creators, primarily African Americans. The roster of geniuses includes: the reclusive Scott Joplin, composer of "Classic Rags" and syncopated operas worthy of comparison with the European masterworks; New Orleans Creole composer Jelly Roll Morton who defined the style of Ragtime that ultimately became known as "Jazz;" Baltimore native and son of ex-slaves, Eubie Blake, who ignited the Harlem Renaissance and "The Jazz Age" when he brought Ragtime to the Broadway stage; and Irving Berlin, writer of the snappy ragtime lyrics and music that led to his crowning as the "King of Tin Pan Alley." These and other great American composers created a body of music that expressed as never before the spirit, vitality, and inventiveness of American life.
- After Shakespeare and Lao Tzu, Kahlil Gibran is the most widely-read poet in history, and yet his captivating life story has remained largely untold to mass audiences for nearly a century. While Gibran is best known for his iconic series of prose poems, embodied in "The Prophet," he was also a prolific painter and author of many other written works, including extensive correspondence that illuminates his artistic and romantic self. He lived in the early twentieth-century in Lebanon, Boston, Paris and New York. His work emphasized "unity in diversity" through internationalism and respect for various cultures and religions, as well as his own spiritual vision and support for the rights of women. This official Kahlil Gibran biography will be the first major theatrical feature to tell the story of how a poor Lebanese boy, from a remote mountain village "Bsharri", came with his family to America, and became a global literary figure and artist.
- A ten-part documentary television series of one-hour programs that presents America's greatest music from Ragtime in the nineteenth century to its most enduring musical form, Rock-and-Roll
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- Virtual and interactive engagements with compelling stories featuring the human experiences of the Tribe-X Series.
- Podcast SeriesAretha Cool covers the multimedia journey of renowned photographer, Matthew Jordan Smith's friendship with Aretha Franklin.