While consciously engaging with contemporary racial discourse, The Trackers ultimately demonstrates the commercial and ideological limitations placed upon a 1970s made-for-television product seeking to achieve racial relevance.
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Outta Sight, Outta Mind: The Trackers and the Strategic Erasure of Indigenous Conflict

As you may surmise from the title, The Trackers (1971) is a watered-down, made-for-television ripoff of The Searchers with a little In the Heat of the Night thrown in. The filmmakers, however, seem…

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Neuerdings beschäftige ich mich musikalisch immer eine Woche lang mehr oder weniger mit einem Album, um damit an meine Jugendzeit anzuknüpfen, wo ich mir im Monat bestenfalls zwei neue Platten kaufen konnte und damit entsprechend viel Zeit verbrachte. Album der vergangenen Woche war "Vaudeville 8:45" der Band "The Trackers". Hauptakteure: die Jazzmusiker Gary Husband (dr, key) und Alf Terje Hana (git, key), das Album ist ein Jazzrock-Fusion-Feuerwerk. #rocknroll #thetrackers #albumderwoche

Attended an interview and reading from Charles Frazier tonight. Pretty great.

The question I didn't get a chance to ask him was: "What the heck is it like to win the National Book Award?" (For Cold Mountain in 1997 or 98.) That had to be knee-wobblingly great.

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