Cantwell Reviews Burns’s Country Music in New Yorker

In the New Yorker online, David Cantwell, adjunct professor of English, reviews Ken Burns’s 16-hour PBS documentary, Country Music. Cantwell’s thorough review, titled “Ken Burns’s Delightful ‘Country Music’ Gets the Big Things Mostly Right,” summarizes the some of the most significant artists featured in the documentary and highlights the fresh approaches that Burns has taken with the genre.  According to Cantwell, a viewer will leave the documentary realizing that “country music is not, and has never been, static.”