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With an eclectic cast of characters & songs, JINGLE BELL ROCKS! Is an exclusive backstage pass into the underground universe of original, alternative Christmas music. With titles like, Close Your Mouth (Its Christmas), Santa Claus Was a Black Man or Merry Christmas Someone these funny, sad, satirical, and scathing songs explored the flip-side of the standard Yuletide themes: racial inequality, religious freedom, nuclear war, familial angst, or simply the yearning sadness of being alone at the happiest time of the year. Filmmaker Mitchell Kezin uncovers the stories behind twelve of the most amazing Christmas songs youve likely never heard. Equal parts social history, pop culture pilgrimage and revealing character study, JINGLE BELL ROCKS! confronts the Christmas music mainstream, reinventing the seasonal soundtrack for the 21st century.
This documentary centers on the world of collecting Christmas music, especially of the obscure, and often offbeat variety. After talking about the reason for the popularity of Christmas music in general, collectors talk about their own collecting experience including what got them hooked on the process of collecting in the first place, their joy of searching most often of the unknown, and how they, after "coming out of the closet", share their love and pay it forward by putting together annual compilations. The reason for having so much of this obscure music produced is discussed. And the stories behind a few of these recordings are presented in interviews with the recording artists and the writers of some of these lesser known titles.
Bill Adler
Self
Clarence Carter
Self
Rawlston Charles
Self
Andy Cirzan
Self
Wayne Coyne
Self (from the Band the Flaming Lips)
Miles Davis
Self
Christopher Dedrick
Self
Moira Dedrick
Self
Sandra Dedrick
Self
Bob Dorough
Self
A Girl Called Eddy
Self
Barry Hansen
Self (Aka Doctor Demento)
Mitchell Kezin
Self
Robert 'El Vez' López
Self (Aka EL VEZ)
Mimi Parker
Self (from the Band LOW)
Joseph Simmons
Self (Aka Reverend Run DMC)
Alan Sparhawk
Self (from the Band LOW)
Mighty Sparrow
Self
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