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Episode 17: Pre-Deliverance, Part 3
Resource ID: 38256
Type: podcast episode, audio
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- music, culture
- banjo, musical instrument, music culture, cultural appropriation
date:
4.28.2024
length:
2 hr 20 min
podcast:
creator:
Brian Halpin
description:
How did a musical instrument which started off hundreds of years ago in Africa end-up becoming a symbol of "white" American country music?
Was this a case of simple cultural appropriation, or is there another story waiting to be told?
When it comes to American history, nothing is ever as black and white as people think...
Was this a case of simple cultural appropriation, or is there another story waiting to be told?
When it comes to American history, nothing is ever as black and white as people think...
peoples: