Title: Before the music dies
Description: Never has the grass-roots American music scene been more diverse, or the broadcast and sale of music controlled by so few corporations. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country to find out why, in the midst of so rich a tradition, mainstream music seems so  packaged and repetitive, and what the future of American music may be.
Subjects: Popular music, Music trade, Social aspects, History and criticism, Economic aspects, Sound recording industry
Places: United States
Time periods: 21st century