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Jake Blount, a banjo scholar, explains. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Jake Blount has built a career out of understanding the banjo’s connection to Black American folk music. In this video, he walks us through the instrument’s history — from West Africa to enslaved people in the US to the early record industry — to explain how Black folk music has evolved. For example: The early record industry confined Black musicians to “race records” and white musicians to “hillbilly records.” Hillbilly music would have been early country and string band music. Race records restricted Black musicians to blues and jazz genres. Which meant Black musicians playing bluegrass-style banjo weren’t recorded — even if they were responsible for teaching white musicians. Using field recordings, their own banjo and fiddle skills, and a deconstructed version of one of their own songs, Jake explains how Black musicians have long been left out of the current canon of folklore recordings and American folk music history. And what he’s doing to keep the tradition alive, with fresh observations and a musical style that looks both forward and backward. This video was filmed on location at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Listen to Jake Blount’s music and find his album The New Faith, here: https://jakeblount.com/ Jake’s website also lists resources for Black string band music. You can find free online resources, discover contemporary black artists, and listen to source recordings here: https://jakeblount.com/black-stringband-resources Gribble, M., Lusk, J., York, A. “Altamont” Black Stringband Music from the Library of Congress Blount, J. “Once There Was No Sun” The New Faith Jones, B. “Once There Was No Sun” Smithsonian Music, “Roots of African American Music” https://music.si.edu/spotlight/african-american-music/roots-of-african-american-music Smithsonian Music, “Banjos” ​​https://music.si.edu/spotlight/banjos-smithsonian PBS, “Blackface Minstrelsy” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/foster-blackface-minstrelsy/ Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com Support Vox's reporting with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://vox.com/contribute-now Shop the Vox merch store: http://vox.com/store Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE Follow Vox on Facebook: http://facebook.com/vox Follow Vox on Twitter: http://twitter.com/voxdotcom Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom

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