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Rhiannon Giddens Comes Home
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
The Importance of Minstrel Shows in Music
A lot of music was passed along through minstrel shows, which are hard to come to terms with now. The banjo is invented in the Caribbean by Africans and only makes the transition to white culture in the 1820s. In this book, I've learned a lot of these tunes on a replica of banjo from 1858. So it feels very different to a modern banjo. And I feel so much like, okay, here is these black banjo players are in these tunes. All of the things that go into American music are all represented in miniature inThese tunes.
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