Monochrome

Defragmenting the history of blues music and the plight of people in America's deep south. Includes powerful interviews and music historians.

A look at blues, ragtime, and jazz, as performed by artists such as Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, and others, and how it is tied into the civil rights struggle led by Martin Luther King.

A look at how the segregation of the Southern states in the US into 'white' and 'black' zones led to gospel-style music becoming fused with the blues to form so-called 'dirty blues'.