Bluegrass Jam Along/Kristina R Gaddy - "Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History"
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| Kristina R Gaddy - "Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History" | |
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| Podcast | Bluegrass Jam Along |
| Date | 2022-09-26 |
| About | Kristina R Gaddy |
| Length | Expression error: Unexpected round operator. min |
| Audio | Audio file |
My guest this week is Kristina R. Gaddy, who joins us to discuss her fascinating new book “Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo's Hidden History”.We chat about how she came to write the book and some of the key discoveries she made along the way, in particular the banjo’s unknown history as an instrument of ritual and rebellion.Kristina’s research in diaries, letters, archives, and art, traces the banjo’s beginnings from the seventeenth century, when enslaved people of African descent created...
