http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/music-month
January is Music Month on Independent Lens and we invite you to explore four films in four weeks about the power of music to shape and enhance our lives. Tune in and rock on.
YOUNG@HEART premieres January 12 at 9 PM (Check local listings)
Their average age is 81, but the spirited members of the Young@Heart Chorus have performed songs by artists from The Clash to Coldplay for audiences around the world, upending assumptions about friendship and old age, life and death.
COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS premieres January 19 at 10 P.M. (Check local listings)
Can you own a sound? COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS examines the history and influence of musical sampling, provoking debates about copyright, compensation and creativity in the age of intellectual property.
HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes premieres January 26 at 10 P.M. (Check local listings)
Take an in-depth look at machismo in rap music and hip-hop culture — where creative genius, poetic beauty, and mad beats collide with misogyny, violence, and homophobia.
P-STAR RISING premieres February 9 at 10 P.M. (Check local listings)
Rapper Priscilla Diaz was dazzling New York nightclub crowds at age nine. But chasing music stardom isnt childs play when you live in a shelter, your moms an addict and your dad has dreams of his own.
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http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/music-month
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