Why this instrument explains Black American folk music

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Sounds exactly like the Horse Flies

Beautiful research!!!

Are you related to Rhiannon Giddens? 🤔

Black Americans? That instrument is from Africa we grew up making these Banjos using woods

This is phenomenal ✨🙌🏿🎼 the Jola people of Guinea Bissau 🪕🪕🪕 created 🙌🏿✨🇬🇼🇬🇼🇬🇼 bluegrass🎼 country 🎼 rhythm 🎼 jazz 🎼✨🙌🏿🪕 Blues 🪕🙌🏿✨🎼🇬🇼🇬🇼🇬🇼🇬🇼

Irish were Severely oppressed by Brits.That’s why there’s independent Ireland,+ Brit N.Ireland.

Long ago,maybe In school,I learned, fear of “Afro talking drums”,heard long distances,among tribes,might spark uprisings on Plantations.

You say they were exploited. Let me ask you, how do you know the Carter Family were trained by Lesley? Riddle was a close friend of the Carters and Maybelle publicly credited him for teaching them. The early country musicians were close with black folk.

Blue grass was originated in the Appalachians from a combination of West Africans with the Banjo and African hymes and English and Scottish with the children ballads from the Isles.

I think what you're doing to preserve this music and educate people is amazing. I'm a scholar of blues but was well aware that the banjo came first before guitars and the harmonicas that German farmers introduced to black people

Music is awesome.

What do a mortar-grenade and a banjo have in common ? – both – when you hear them – it is too late to run away 😮

The banjo, as we know it in the u s., was invented on a plantation. Outside of appamatox courthouse Va.

La mejor música fue inventada (o influenciada) por las comunidades negras y afrodescendientes, de allí surge el rock, el blues, el bluegrass, el jazz, me encantó el video, pero más me gusto el contexto y las explicación socio-histórica de todo, aguante el banjo best instrumente ever

Why do you feel the need to erase the Celtic origin of country and bluegrass in an attempt to highlight the African influence? There's no denying that folk music of the British Isles were the direct precursor to this music. American music has been a fusion of black and white from the very start. Sick of this intellectually dishonest, separatist rhetoric.

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