Each note that Jake Blount plays on the banjo is a step toward helping his audience better understand a piece of Black history he believes has been lost. Blount is a professional touring musician who ...

Introduction: Griots of piedmont North Carolina and portrait of songster Will Baldwin -- Signifying at the crossroads : African-American traditions of the folk banjo -- The ritual of minstrelsy : some ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Go behind the scenes with Our Native Daughters as they discuss the origins of their debut album and explore the power of the banjo as a distinctly ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with researcher Joe Johnson and musician Jake Blount about the new Library of Congress guide to African American banjo... The Library of Congress' latest addition is a guide ...

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In one of the first scenes of "Throw Down Your Heart," banjoist Béla Fleck is preparing to record with a group of local musicians in a field near a Ugandan village. The movie's director, his half ...