Enslaved Africans seeking to reconnect with their lost cultural traditions brought African concepts to instruments in the ...

National Museum of American History American Five-String Fretless Banjo National Museum of American History American Five-String Fretless Banjo National Museum of ...

The instrument was made for Paul Tyler’s ... He told me to send to S.S. Stewart, the great banjo maker of Philadelphia, for a banjo like his ... So the next day I sent to Stewart for catalogues ...

Code Switch talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee, Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an ...

Parker has been trying to find her place in the banjo world. So this week, she talks to Black banjo players like Grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens about creating community and reclaiming an instrument ...