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Afropop Worldwide

  • The Black History of the Banjo (Rebroadcast)
    Afropop Worldwide
    This episode traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own.
  • Photo: Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wikimedia Commons
    The Black History of the Banjo
    Afropop Worldwide
    This episode traces the history of this most American of instruments from its ancestors in West Africa through the Caribbean and American South and into the present, as a new generation of Black women artists reclaim the banjo as their own.