![]() ![]() ![]() The black gospel, blues and work songs, the white spirituals and Carter Family classics, the hill tunes and string-band dance music that form the film's score not only define the story's time and place, but also reinforce themes shared by Homer's hero and Americans uprooted by the Depression - exile and haven, the dream of a better place ahead.Įven if the Coen Brothers, post-"Fargo," aren't a box-office given, this might amount to the most significant airing of core American folk music in a popular film since "Deliverance" inspired an epidemic of dueling banjos in the early '70s. That tune is the recurring centerpiece in a feast of traditional music that enriches "O Brother, Where Art Thou?," Joel and Ethan Coen's loose, comedic adaptation of "The Odyssey" set in Depression-era Mississippi. 'O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?': Music so integral, it's a characterĮvery Ulysses needs a little traveling music, and in the case of George Clooney's Everett Ulysses McGill, the 1930s incarnation of Western civilization's archetypal wanderer, it's the old folk lament "Man of Constant Sorrow." ![]()
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