That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and Race

That St. Louis Thing, Vol. 2: An American Story of Roots, Rhythm and RaceThat St. Louis Thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the citys famed musical development blues, jazz and rock placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and ecomomic power. Here, too, are the citys people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed

That St. Louis Thing is an American story of music, race relations and baseball. Here is over 100 years of the cityÕs famed musical development -- blues, jazz and rock -- placed in the context of its civil rights movement and its political and ecomomic power. Here, too, are the cityÕs people brought alive from its foundation to the racial conflicts in Ferguson in 2014. The panorama of the city presents an often overlooked gem, music that goes far beyond famed artists such as Scott Joplin, Miles Davis and Tina Turner. The city is also the scene of a historic civil rights movement that remained important from its early beginnings into the twenty-first century. And here, too, are the sounds of the crack of the bat during a century-long love affair with baseball.