Exploring African American Culture Through Banjo Music
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Exploring African American Culture Through Banjo Music
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Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens recounts the history of the #banjo and how it went from an African American invention to a stereotype of white mountain culture. "When it's a simple story, it's usually wrong," she tells Margaret Hoover. "You know what I mean?" | Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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So much fun to play with Seckou Keita and Francesco Turrisi. You can learn the banjo tab and history of this song, plus many more in my new book “Go Back and Fetch It Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo." | Rhiannon Giddens
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So much fun to play with Seckou Keita and Francesco Turrisi. You c…
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Rhiannon Giddens, featured on Beyoncé's "TEXAS HOLD 'EM," discusses the media's perception of the banjo | The Daily Show
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Every time i pick up my banjo (made by Jim Hartel) I feel a lick or tune wanting to escape into the world. This is one of hundreds that come and go. I play this banjo, a replica of a banjo style from 1858, because it feels deeply cultural and spiritual to me. A time when everyone was playing the banjo - regardless of the negative stereotyping being created around it, this african diasporic instrument was capturing the hearts of a nation. The banjo began in spirit, and when I play it, I feel that
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Every time i pick up my banjo (made by Jim Hartel) I feel a lick or tune …
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We're back at it! A little minstrel banjo and gourd viola for a beautiful Saturday morning, made by Jeff of Menzies Instruments. To be out in nature in North Carolina with these instruments in hand, we can feel the connective threads of generations who laid down their roots here before us. That's why my ongoing collaboration with Jeff is so important. We are continuing old time traditions in the construction of the Jamaica Academy of Arts in St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. This school will assist in pre
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Many of the techniques used for an early style banjo such as the one I hold (1858 Levi Brown replica by Jim Hartel) in large part died out as the 'stroke' style favored in these tunes (which itself was a descendent of West African techniques on ancestral lute type instruments) evolved into the 'frailing' or 'clawhammer' so well known and loved in old time music. In this piece, Butler's Jig from Frank Converse's banjo tutor of 1865 (tab'd by Joseph Weidlich), you can see the thumb technique that
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