American Music: Off the Record is a 2008 American documentary film that features theorists Noam Chomsky and Douglas Rushkoff in an interrogation of the American music industry. The film covers a great deal of ground from the authenticity of live music to the circumvention of the corporate machine by indie distribution, to the demise of the privately owned music store.

Cast

Bernard Allison

Paul Barrere

Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash

The Belairs

Bottle Rockets

Savoy Brown

Jackson Browne

Buckethead

Canned Heat

Carlene Carter

The Cates Brothers

Noam Chomsky

Chubby Carrier

David Allan Coe

Commander Cody

Danny Cox

Rodney Crowell

Iris DeMent

Rick Derringer

Chris Duarte

The Elders

Chris Hillman

Frank Hicks

It's a Beautiful Day

Wanda Jackson

Jah Roots

John Jorgenson

Eric Lindell

David Lindley

Little Feat

Country Joe McDonald

James McMurtry

Benjamin Meade

Roger Miller

Nace Brothers

Lee Oskar

Lee Roy Parnell

Les Paul

Herb Pederson

Ray Price

The Rainmakers

Lee Ranaldo

Kasey Rausch

Robert Reynolds

Roomful of Blues

Douglas Rushkoff

Billy Joe Shaver

Kim Simmonds

Sonic Youth

Richard Thompson

Paul Thor

Bob Walkenhorst

War

Watermelon Slim

Rev. Billy C. Wertz

Lizzie West

Edgar Winter

Johnny Winter

Carolyn Wonderland

References

External links

Corticrawl Films

Filmguru on the movie

2008 films

American documentary films

Documentary films about the music industry

2008 documentary films

2000s English-language films

2000s American films

American Music: Off the Record