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Episode 15: Pre-Deliverance, Part 1
Resource ID: 38258
Type: podcast episode, audio
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- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- music, culture
- banjo, musical instrument, music culture, bluegrass music
date:
12.18.2023
length:
58 min
podcast:
creator:
Brian Halpin
description:
Play a game of word association with the average American.
Say "banjo".
Chances are, a great many would reply with words like "hillbilly" or "redneck".
Some might venture to mention bluegrass music.
How did a musical instrument which started off hundreds of years ago in Africa end-up becoming a symbol of "white" American music culture?
And what if some of the earliest people of non-African ancestry to take-up the banjo were actually...Appalachian Jews?
Join us for another winding trek through the hidden history of heartland America.
Say "banjo".
Chances are, a great many would reply with words like "hillbilly" or "redneck".
Some might venture to mention bluegrass music.
How did a musical instrument which started off hundreds of years ago in Africa end-up becoming a symbol of "white" American music culture?
And what if some of the earliest people of non-African ancestry to take-up the banjo were actually...Appalachian Jews?
Join us for another winding trek through the hidden history of heartland America.
places:
Other Resources
- Melungeon Voices S5 E2 – “Generations: An Indigenous Exhibit”
- Melungeon Voices S2 E6 – Lauren Magnussen
- Melungeon Voices S3 E7 – Dr. Melissa Carver
- Melungeon Voices S4 E2 – Dr. Kathy Lyday
- Melungeon Voices S5 E6 – At-Risk Populations of Appalachia & Southern U.S.
- Melungeon Voices S2 E4 – William Isom II