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Why this instrument explains Black American folk music
Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains.
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Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjoās connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrumentās history ā from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry ā to explain how Black folk music has evolved.
For example: The early record industry confined Black musicians to ārace recordsā and white musicians to āhillbilly records.ā Hillbilly music would have been early country and string band music. Race records restricted Black musicians to blues and jazz genres. Which meant Black musicians playing bluegrass-style banjo werenāt recorded ā even if they were responsible for teaching white musicians.
Using field recordings, their own banjo and fiddle skills, and a deconstructed version of one of their own songs, Jake explains how Black musicians have long been left out of the current canon of folklore recordings and American folk music history. And what heās doing to keep the tradition alive, with fresh observations and a musical style that looks both forward and backward.
This video was filmed on location at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Listen to Jake Blountās music and find his album The New Faith, here: https://jakeblount.com/
Jakeās website also lists resources for Black string band music. You can find free online resources, discover contemporary black artists, and listen to source recordings here: https://jakeblount.com/black-stringband-resources
Gribble, M., Lusk, J., York, A. āAltamontā Black Stringband Music from the Library of Congress
Blount, J. āOnce There Was No Sunā The New Faith
Jones, B. āOnce There Was No Sunā
Smithsonian Music, āRoots of African American Musicā
https://music.si.edu/spotlight..../african-american-mu
Smithsonian Music, āBanjosā
āāhttps://music.si.edu/spotlight/banjos-smithsonian
PBS, āBlackface Minstrelsyā
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/ameri....canexperience/featur
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