Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) on Netflix
NR20171h 43mDocumentaryMusic
Musicians of Indigenous heritage from Canada, Mexico and the United States helped shape rock, and their story is little known. The documentary profiles a group of those players.
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Plot summary
Musicians of Indigenous heritage from Canada, Mexico and the United States left a mark on rock, and the documentary profiles a group of them. Among those it follows are Jesse Ed Davis, Mildred Bailey, Charley Patton, Link Wray, Stevie Salas, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Robbie Robertson, Randy Castillo, Jimi Hendrix and Taboo. Musicians including Quincy Jones, George Clinton, Taj Mahal, Martin Scorsese, John Trudell, Steven Tyler, Slash, Iggy Pop and Buddy Guy discuss the contributions of artists who identified as Indigenous. The film takes its name from 'Rumble', the 1958 instrumental by Link Wray and His Ray Men. The idea came from executive producers Stevie Salas and Tim Johnson, who created a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian exhibition on Native musicians in popular culture, its title drawn from a song Buffy Sainte-Marie co-wrote.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017)
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- The idea for the film came from its executive producers Stevie Salas (Apache heritage) and Tim Johnson (Grand River Mohawk), who had already created a Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian exhibition on Indigenous influence on American music, titled "Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture".
- The film takes its title from "Rumble", the pioneering 1958 instrumental by the American group Link Wray & His Ray Men, which the film presents as an influence on many artists.
