A Cultural History of the Banjo
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Laurent Marc Dubois, a historian at Duke University, shares the storied history of the banjo, an instrument whose development was marked by wide cultural encounters from Africa to the Caribbean and North America, contributing to an incredibly rich variety of musical traditions.
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